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ott(4)                    FILE FORMATS                     ott(4)



NAME
     .ott - FACE object architecture information

DESCRIPTION
     The  FACE  object  architecture  stores  information   about
     object-types in an ASCII file named .ott (object type table)
     that is contained in each directory.   This  file  describes
     all of the objects in that directory.  Each line of the .ott
     file contains information about one object in pipe-separated
     fields.  The fields are (in order):

     name              the name of the actual UNIX System file.

     dname             the name that should be displayed  to  the
                       user,  or  a  dot if it is the same as the
                       name of the file.

     description       the description of the object, or a dot if
                       the  description  is the default (the same
                       as object-type).

     object-type       the FACE internal object type name.

     flags             object specific flags.

     mod time          the  time  that  FACE  last  modified  the
                       object.   The  time  is given as number of
                       seconds since 1/1/1970, and is in  hexade-
                       cimal notation.

     object information
                       an  optional  field,  contains  a  set  of
                       semi-colon   separated  name=value  fields
                       that can be used  by  FACE  to  store  any
                       other  information  necessary  to describe
                       this object.

FILES
     .ott is created in any directory opened by FACE.
















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