Re: Okay, now I'm confused
> hmmmm...Fortunately, my brain has recovered somewhat from the fog it must
> have been in, as I remembered that I did indeed have a back-up of my
> base2_2.tgz. I then realized that I have now way of verifying that it truly
> is a 2_2 potato. It could simply have been someone putting that label there.
> How do I verify its authenticity?
md5sum.
> I unpacked it on my powermac (in Mac OS) just to get to the libc.so.6 and I
> go to look at that particular file and it is empty! It takes up zero K! I
> don't get that. Why would it be empty? Or is that a figment of my mac's
> imagination? Should I unpack it on my LinuxPPC side (different from the Mac
> side, of course)?
Sure. Linux will see the 'data fork' of the file (the real thing) whereas
MacOS either only noticed what it thought was the empty resource fork, or
the symbolic link pointing to the real file. MacOS and Unix don't mix.
Michael
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