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Re: Packages with documentation only in /usr/share/doc



On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> BTW, does anyone know what "././@LongLink" is in the potato
> Contents-i386 file?

Yes.  It's a bogus mechanism used by GNU tar to store long filenames
whilst still remainly mostly backwards compatible with SUN tar.

(it appears in the contents file since that file is the sorted output of
some tar commands)

Jules

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