Hello Bob.

27 Jun 04 14:37, you wrote to me:


 [word 2000  can't write files]

 BL>  Stuffups with Linux/Samba never seem to end, but this time I suppose
 BL> it's Win98 doing it. With two Win98 machines, there is no problem.

I can't say... possibly it's a problem with captialisation.

 JB>> dunno what a "mime link" is see if there's a spot where you can
 JB>> put uid=bob

 BL> I call "mime" the ext2 entry that identifies the actual
file.  So far
 BL> as I can work out, Linux ext2 is not like a DOS directory. It's more
 BL> like a pointer. What I call a "link" is where you link
one mime entry
 BL> to another one (or to a device). That "link" is *exactly* like a
 BL> pointer.

Ah, that sounds like what the unix world calls an inode. The directory has
the filename and points to the inode. the inode holds all the rest of the
information about the file (including all the disk sectors used, or a
pointer to another inode if there's not room to list them all.

Jasen

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