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From: "Jong B. Lee" <jbdoll AT kepri DOT re DOT kr>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: tar  problem - symlinked file
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:31:52 +0900
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tar does not teat well symlinked file
when it is symlinked to a file in its parent directory.

Here's the case.
Current directory is <test> and a file, <foo>, is in the parent directory.
$ ls -s ../foo foo
$ cd ..

$ tar cvf test.tar test
$ rm -rf test
$ tar xvf test.tar
$ cd test
$ls -laF
Wow!
The size of foo is zero !