(idea) by avjewe Fri Apr 06 2001 at 15:32:11
A boring old file with bytes in it. Not anything fancy like a symbolic link, named pipe, socket, directory or special file. You write to it, and the bytes are still there waiting for you when you read it again.

In Perl there is a file test operator, -f, which tells you if a particular file is a plain file.

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