Bug#49517: errors in base2_2.tgz
Hi Tim,
> I opened the file with WinZip and found two files with strange names.One
> is called '['. It has a size of 17356 Bytes and is in ./usr/bin/. I don't
> know wether this is en error or not, but it seems to me to be one.
No. Most any unix system has a file called /usr/bin/[ . It is what get
called in your shell scripts when you do:
if [ <some expression> ]; then
...
fi
"[" is just a command. It is usually hardlinked to /usr/bin/test
> The second file has an unresolveable name. WinZip failes to extract this
> file and I think this is the reason why the install program for Debian
> stops. It is located in ./usr/share/doc/kbd/utf/ and has a size of 295
> Bytes.
This is because winzip does not handle utf filenames.
from /usr/share/doc/kbd:
The file with a strange name in this directory is no mistake.
It shows that Linux handles filenames in Unicode (UTF-8)
without ever realizing that they are in Unicode.
randolph
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