From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 14:58:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E24C237B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31093 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 23:04:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 23:04:17 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: Mark Redlon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd's Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:25:55 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20020213143719.58001.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020213143719.58001.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02021317255505.00408@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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