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Subject: RE: Too many symbolic links
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:50:43 -0400
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From: "Reynolds, John" <John DOT Reynolds AT sciatl DOT com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
> 
> That error happens when tar tries to unpack a symlink ontop 
> of another,
> preexisting symlink. The easiest way to fix it is to delete from your
> filesystem any file/symlink that is part of the new tarball. Then,
> untar.

Tried that but had no luck. I added -U to tar to unlink before extracting
and that cured things. I would have thought there'd be no difference in that
verses deleting before un-taring. 

Regardless, it's fixed, thanks for the help!

> 
> "Reynolds, John" wrote:
> > I get the following message when trying to un-tar the 
> vim-5.5 archive:
> > 
> > tar: usr/local/man/man1/rview.1: Could not create symlink 
> to `vim.1': Too
> > many symbolic links


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