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> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:55:48 -0400
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> The bz2 file is not bad, around 2 megs, but it expands into a 16
> Meg tar file and thence to over 1000 files.  It tries valiantly to
> set symbolic links on Windoze, and fails, resulting in anomalies.

Use the ported GNU Tar to untar the archive, and it will simulate
symlinks by copying.  (I thought DJTAR did that as well, but perhaps
I'm mistaken.)

> With the coming death of Simtel for DJGPP maybe dj should consider
> switching distributions to bz2 files, combined with a revision to
> djtar to handle it (I don't think it can now).

The CVS version of DJTAR does support bzip2, but many other programs
apparently used by DJGPP users don't.  So I'm not sure we should
switch, given that most of our archives are not large and thus the
potential savings in space are not very largey either.