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From: "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab AT bright DOT net>
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:31:52 -0400
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Subject: RE: Serious brokeness of treating .lnk files as symlinks
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Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru> regarding RE: Serious brokeness of treating .lnk files as s:

[tar does not treat .lnk files as such]
# I am afraid there is no solution without breaking compatibility. On Unix
# symlink does not have any "contents" except the file name it points to. So,
# tar saves just this filename. This allows tar archive to be moved to any
# other compliant system. If you tar your files on Cygwin and restore them on
# Unix you get identical filesystem structure including symlinks.

If the problem is with the tar format, then you can solve it
by using some other archival system -- for example, pkzip --
for moving files from one Windows system to another or within
one Windows system.  What tar does is IIUC right for moving
files to a Unix system.  

Is there a way to get tar to treat .lnk files as regular
files (rather than as symlinks) with a commandline option?
That would also solve the problem, I think.  


-- jonadab

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