Everything in Unix is a file???

[weronpc]

What does it mean when people said "everything in Unix is a file"?

how come MS Window OS everything is not a file???

Mike

[Roy Sinclair]

What does it mean when people said "everything in Unix is a file"?

Everything can be opened & closed programmatically as if it were a file.

how come MS Window OS everything is not a file???

It was a design decision, they weren't trying to write another Unix clone.

[weronpc]

I am sorry, I am kinda new

I still don't really understand :(

[Roy Sinclair]

Everyone's new sometime. If you've got access to a Unix (or Linux) system and are working with it you'll eventually run into something that'll explain it in a way you'll understand.

[Celtboy]

Chris Dibona did a pretty good job of explaining it on an episode of The Screen Savers (http://www.thescreensavers.com). You can find it here (http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/linux/story/0,24330,2190697,00.html)