Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ? Message-ID: <20030930143207.GP7944@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Anybody know how (better if recursively) ? I extracted a > tarball under Cygwin and later copied it to a Linux partition. > Obviously all Cygwin shortcuts created at extract time are > copied, breaking it. tar it up on one machine, untar it on the other machine. cp doesn't keep shortcuts. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/