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Subject: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:23:18 -0500 (EST)

Reply-to: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)

  i once knew this, really.  what's the explanation of that recent
introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the
output from "ls -l"?

rday
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