@ symbol in directory listing

[elesueur]

Hi,

I would like to know what the @ symbol in a mac osx directory listing means...

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 elesueur  elesueur  -           0  1 Jun 12:54 lucida_handwriting.ttf

secondly, this file displays a size of zero, yet when I open it in finder, the font exists and the information there says it's 60kb...

Can anyone explain this?

[hayne]

Quote: Originally Posted by from 'man ls' If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by a '@' character.

The extended attributes can be seen by using the 'xattr' command on that file:

xattr lucida_handwriting.ttf

I think it will show that the file has a "resource fork".
To see the size of the resource fork of that file, use:

ls -l lucida_handwriting.ttf/..namedfork/rsrc