Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:25:55 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Mark Redlon <mredlon@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd's Message-ID: <02021317255505.00408@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <20020213143719.58001.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020213143719.58001.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 13 February 2002 09:37, Mark Redlon wrote: > I recently downloaded and burned Disk2 and discovered > many empty files. I became concerned when I looked in > the user/lib directory and discovered 84 empty files > with either the .so extension or .a extension. I am > running Windows 98 and using Click n Burn Pro. Is > this a side effect of doing this in Windows? Could be. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing those are actually symlinks, and since Windows doesn't understand symlinks, it may show them as empty files. Mount the CD on a UNIX box and see if those files are symlinks. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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