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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
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On Friday 13 February 2004 04:23 am, flux wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> How do I know what package does the file belong?
> Thx.

for a file, try the following example of using pkg_which

# locate libXs
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.a
# pkg_which /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.a
XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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