From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <37100ba44fd8631be870c0398f988a66@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: ideal plan9 laptop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:50:07 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4967da42-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 matt@proweb.co.uk: > so is the 'a' mapped onto DOS's Archive bit? No, the 'a' means "this file is currently contiguous on disk, as 9load must be in order to be the target of a single sector bootstrap loader". It's a clumsy hack and I'm sorry I did it, but there's really no good alternative that doesn't require writing custom tools. At least this way I can use chmod and ls. Russ