From: A. V. Le Blanc (zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk)
Date: 07/07/92 

From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: installation, and tar problems
Date: 7 Jul 1992 07:26:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul3.121331.267@dfv.rwth-aachen.de> mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) writes:
>Even the new tar binary on tsx-11 has at least one bug: it
>doesn't handle symbolic links.

Actually, tar is supposed to save symbolic links rather than follow
them, unless of course you specify the -h or +dereference option,
which tells tar to follow symbolic links.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk