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Re: boot/woody/boot-ia64 & use of links



On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Also, I notice that it populates the $CDDIR/install directory with
> symlinks, which IIRC results in something not terribly useful on
> Windoze.

Just tested this, and my windoze 98 box shows symlinks as 0 length
files.  If this is considered a problem (as I guess it should be), then
there are more serious examples.  The worst is that doc/install appears
to be full of empty files.

"find -type l" on my CD shows:

./debian
./dists/frozen
./dists/potato/main/binary-ia64/games/fortunes-it_1.51-4.deb
./dists/stable
./dists/unstable
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/3.0.22-2002-04-03/doc/ca/index.html
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/3.0.22-2002-04-03/doc/cs/index.html
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/3.0.22-2002-04-03/doc/da/index.html
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/3.0.22-2002-04-03/doc/index.html
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/3.0.22-2002-04-03/doc/it/index.html
./dists/woody/main/disks-ia64/current
./doc/install/cfdisk.txt
./doc/install/ch-administrivia.en.html
./doc/install/ch-appendix.en.html
./doc/install/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html
./doc/install/ch-conclusion.en.html
./doc/install/ch-glossary.en.html
./doc/install/ch-hardware-req.en.html
./doc/install/ch-install-system.en.html
./doc/install/ch-init-config.en.html
./doc/install/ch-install-methods.en.html
./doc/install/ch-intro.en.html
./doc/install/ch-main.en.html
./doc/install/ch-partitioning.en.html
./doc/install/ch-post-install.en.html
./doc/install/ch-preparing.en.html
./doc/install/ch-rescue-boot.en.html
./doc/install/ch-welcome.en.html
./doc/install/dselect-beginner.en.html
./doc/install/dselect-beginner.en.txt
./doc/install/footnotes.en.html
./doc/install/index.html
./doc/install/index.en.html
./doc/install/install.en.html
./doc/install/install.en.txt
./doc/install/parted.txt
./install/doc/ca/index.html
./install/doc/cs/index.html
./install/doc/da/index.html
./install/doc/index.html
./install/doc/it/index.html
./install/linux.bin
./install/rescue.bin
./install/root.bin


Richard


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