X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B9696F3.70004@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:44:03 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange symlink behaviour References: <20100304094847.GZ17293@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100304114902.GC7980@calimero.vinschen.de> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't use up > any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked ^ On NTFS partitions. It will on any kind of FAT partition though. > as expected. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple