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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:54:14 +0300
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Subject:	tar 1.25 fail to handle symliks correctly
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Hi,
I know tar version 1.25 sporadically fail to untar symlinks under cygwin.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00335.html

I switch to an older tar version (1.23) and everything is working perfectly.
Since this is a critical bug (tar is practically unusable) - I think you 
should consider switch to an older tar version in the default cygwin 
installation.

Yoni.

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