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

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