well hell, the number I was interested in was the 22 and 43, my damned new 
email program on OS X and I obviously have some issues to work out :)

Greg

On Saturday, April 7, 2001, at 02:51 AM, Greg Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I am looking at a directory on my machine and on another machine that 
> should be exactly the same
>
> my machine
>
>     drwxrwxrwx  22 root    wheel        704 Apr  4 22:34 directory
>                            ^^
> friends machine
>
>    drwxrwxrwx  43 root    wheel        704 Apr  4 22:34 directory
>                            ^^
>
> What exactly is that number?  and why would it be different on 2 machines 
> that have the exact same configuration?  and just assuming it should 
> perhaps be the same on both machines, how do I change it?
>