\_ SMTP quoth Wank8734@aol.com on 12/3/2002 12:29 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ I am trying to figure out what a classification such as @ or * means at the end of a file name. here are a few examples.... \_ \_ allcm* \_ allec@ \_ control/ \_ \_ if you could tell me what those *, @, and / means at the end of a \_ file it would be greatly appreciated. Other marks I know of are | \_ and = thanks again man ls But, to be brief, files denoted by ending in * executable @ symlink (soft, possibly hard too) / dir = socket | named pipe ' ' rootkit produced file :-) David