On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:02:41PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > > cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > or > > cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > then try rm -rf? > > HTH, > Jesse > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ cp /dev/null big cp: accessing `big': Value too large for defined data type [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ cat /dev/null > big [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ d big [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1/t$ v total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 mas mas 0 Nov 27 16:30 big [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk$ cd .. ; rm -rf perl-5.6.1/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk$
Thanks a lot for the timely help, -- Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't see his feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football." -- Chuck Newcombe
