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atclass(3)						       AtFS Toolkit Library							atclass(3)

NAME
       atFileClassExt, atIsDerived - ASO class handling

SYNOPSIS
       #include <atfs.h>
       #include <atfstk.h>

       char*atFileClassExt (Af_key *aso);

       int  atIsDerived (Af_key *aso);

DESCRIPTION
       atFileClassExt  returns	a  short  string (one or two characters long), visualizing the attributed software objects (aso) class.  This is a
       superset of the file class symbols added to filenames by the ls -F command.

       /      Directory.

       @      Symbolic Link.

       =      Socket.

       *      Executable.

       $      Derived.

       ^      Locked.

       Some combinations are possible. In espacially the circumflex (^) may be combined with any other symbol, resulting in a two letter string.

       atIsDerived checks whether the denoted aso is in a derived object cache (return value TRUE) or not (return value FALSE).

SEE ALSO
       ls(1)

AtFStk-1.12						     Fri Jun 25 16:39:35 1993							atclass(3)