From: Martin Junius (mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: 07/10/92 

From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius)
Subject: Re: installation, and tar problems
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1992 14:16:46 GMT

zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) writes:

>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.

Yes, but this just what this tar does not. It always follows
symlinks.

Martin 

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