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Re: Help! Major grep weirdness!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Thu Oct 24 02:39:11 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:33:40 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
> Another tidbit -- now that grep is a directory, not a normal executable,
> rpm -e grep fails with "Operation not permitted"
>
> Incidentally, the files in directory /usr/bin/grep are
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254520 Aug 16 1995 dvipsk.dvi
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227740 Aug 16 1995 kpathsea.dvi
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 734156 Mar 11 1996 texinfo.dvi
>
> Oddly enough, rpm says none of these files are owned by any package.
> Strange, since I haven't installed anything but Colgate.
Are you sure you ftp'ed it in binary mode
and not in ASCII??
How about going back to grep from Picasso?
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