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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 07:32:58 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>

(about the Unix spec)
> >
> > 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.)

I used one I've had lying around for years, since before I used
DJGPP.  It claims to be Gnu Tar 1.12.  Probably operator error.  I
used -xvf, and it claimed to be copying, but a collection of 0
size output files resulted.

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