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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:07 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ?
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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

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