From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199908241237.IAA29809@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: Real symlinks for DJGPP?
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:37:09 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990824094442.12112Q-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 24, 99 09:45:55 am
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Bonjour M. Eli Zaretskii

> 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).

Laurynas Biveinis wants to add support for links, what a better
way to test the implementation, then  to port tools that use
symlinks without any specific change in the code.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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