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An obvious observation is that metric continua can be topologically far from each other, no matter how small their Hausdorff distance is. In an earlier paper [Topology Proc. 9, No. 2, 329-337 (1984; Zbl 0577.54038)] the author showed that this does not concern the pseudo-arcs. Namely, if we have a pseudo-arc situated in a compact metric space then for every positive \(\varepsilon\) there exists a positive \(\delta\) -- depending on this pseudo-arc -- such that for each pseudo-arc situated in this space at the Hausdorff distance less than \(\delta\) from the given one there exists a homeomorphism between these pseudo-arcs moving points less than \(\varepsilon\). In the paper under review the author shows that among non-degenerate continua only pseudo-arcs have this property. The problem is then discussed for compacta being not necessarily continua. The author shows that among compacta only Cantor sets and the unions of finitely many disjoint pseudo-arcs and singletons have this remarkable property. Reviewer's remark: The number \(\delta\) -- depending on \(\varepsilon\) -- depends on the given copy of the pseudo-arc, so we cannot say that if two pseudo-arcs are sufficiently near in the sense of the Hausdorff distance then they are homeomorphically near each other. A laconic abstract of the author and a comment to Theorem 5 on p. 239 might suggest such a misleading meaning of the result.