[cs631apue] file archive state

[Jan Schaumann]

zwang34 <zwang34 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> In -l, the file type includes archive state. I couldn't find any desired 
> answer about how can I get this. And I didn't find anything about it in 
> info page or man page. Could you please provide any idea about this?

This file type is not supported on all unix versions; unfortunately
Linux does not support it either.

The good thing is that you don't have to worry about this at all if you
use the strmode(3) function to turn the st_mode into a string.

-Jan