From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: B17 (warning) 7 Dec 1996 21:00:07 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612080411.UAA28793.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: garp@opustel.com (Keith Gary Boyce) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Keith Gary Boyce" at Dec 7, 96 07:58:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 404 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Keith Gary Boyce wrote: > > For all you who may try to extract all.tar.gz with something other > than tar file with release then don't. You will loose all symbolic links > etc. There should not be any symbolic links in the tar files. I was careful to always use the tar "h" option which includes copies of symlinked files only (creating tar files without symlinks). -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".