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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

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