Aaah! So that's what bs stands for!

I gotta say, given that

  1. They are always(*) empty.

    *I just grepped my very mature 5.8.6 perl subtree and found 935 *.bs files which are all empty: 

                   1 File(s)              0 bytes
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
             935 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  14,929,285,120 bytes free

C:\test>dir /s \perl\*.bs | find "bytes" | wc -l
    937

    [download]
  2. That there is an entire subtree 2, 3 even 4 levels deep that exists only to support the existance of this empty file (and sometimes and equally useless empty .exists file!).

That was not the definition of BS I've had in mind for the last few years.

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In reply to Re^2: Empty perl *.bs files by BrowserUk
in thread Empty perl *.bs files by amigo

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