RE: [cobalt-users] Two odd files? Anyone help explain?

["Todd Kirk" <tkirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Todd Kirk wrote:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Mar  6 17:44 252932192_l
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         5662 Oct  5  2001 q
> > 
> > - TEXT PASTE FROM 'q' FILE -
> > SNMPGET(1)                                             SNMPGET(1)
> > 
> > N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE
> >        snmpget  -  communicates  with a network entity using SNMP
> 
> It's a manual page, it's not corrupted, they have embedded 
> backspaces and 
> odd things (That's how it does bold type).
> It's probably saved as 'q' because someone hit the wrong key 
> while viewing
> it in less, and told it to save it to disk, the 'q' was 
> intended to 'quit'
> but got taken as the filename, so it stuck it in a file named 'q'.
> 
> I seem to aquire lots of files named 'q' and 'x', i go around 
> and erase
> them from time to time ;P
> 
> Not a clue what the other file is.
> [tho it looks vaguely familiar]

Thanks, obviously clear to remove them both, thanks.

 
regards,
 
Todd Kirk