On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:24:18 +0200 (SAST) > From: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org, Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: adduser in hamm dumps core ! > > Hi > > >> Why do I have two distinct copies of perl? > > > >i found this too and diffed it - no difference at all, so > >i don't bother very much. > > > > They are the same file, they are just hard-linked to each other. If > you do ls-l on either of them, you'll see that one of the columns, > which is normally 1, will be 2 or more, meaning that 2 or more > filenames are hardlinked to the same file...
hate to dissapoint you, but there are THREE perl copies - that's true that two of them are just hard-links regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .