Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:45:55 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Real symlinks for DJGPP?
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:

> It would be interesting to see the implementation with
> tools like tar/cpio  who actually retry to recreate the links.

The DJGPP port of GNU Tar already supports links in tarballs (it copies 
the target of the link if it exists).