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Re: [Bug-tar] Regarding untaring tar files containing symlinks


From: Amit Kapila
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Regarding untaring tar files containing symlinks
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:54:53 +0530

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
> Win-DOS does not support symlinks. Even newer versions that claim to support
> symlinks make a difference between links to files and links to directories.
>
> If you are not able to live with the Cygwin symlink emulation, I recommend to
> use star and to tell it to make copies by using the option -copysymlinks

Is it similar to what tar.exe -h option which can be used when
we form the tar on folders/files?

The important point here is that the tar is created by using standard
tar format described in link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)

While forming tar, it uses link indicator as '2' as described in above
link and my requirement is to untar that on windows; the tar is
created using above format on Windows.


With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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