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RE: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:12:24 +0200
- Cc: Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com
Hi Jason,
I'd look at "tar" which stores symlinks by default
and it's "-h" option to force following them.
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 21:42
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Cc: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
> Subject: Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Chris,
> >
> >Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> If I am understanding what you're saying correctly, you are
> essentially
> >> trying to break cygwin's encapsulation of symlinks. There is no
> >> guarantee that a symlink will always begin with "!<symlink>" or
> >> even that the contents will contain any kind of magic denoting a
> symlink.
> >
> >That is why I called it a "very nasty hack." I'm try to elicit the
> >proper way to read the (raw) contents of a Cygwin symlink file -- if
> >one exists. Sounds like one doesn't.
>
> Actually, my version of zip for cygwin has a '-y' option that stores
> symlinks
> and unzip seems to restore them correctly.
>
> So, this is at least possible already.
>
> cgf
>
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