mick crane writes: > sorry to be a nuisance > can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the > dots has to do with ? > seen this in perl as the kind of hierarchy of modules but how is this > to do with the OS ? > > ~$ apropos nameserver > Net::DNS::Nameserver (3pm) - DNS server class
It usually translates to directory separators (/). In your case, it points to /usr/share/perl5/Net/DNS/Nameserver.pm -- Alberto