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     DIR(5)                                                     DIR(5)

     NAME
          dir - format of directories

     SYNOPSIS
          #include <sys/dir.h>

     DESCRIPTION
          A directory behaves exactly like an ordinary file, save that
          no user may write into a directory.  The fact that a file is
          a directory is indicated by a bit in the flag word of its
          i-node entry see, filsys(5). The structure of a directory
          entry as given in the include file is: