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bug in 'tar -h'


'tar -h' is supposed to dereference symbolic links and store the actual
files instead.
it dereferences just once instead of all:
if `foo' links to `bar' which links to `zot', `tar -cfh z foo' will
store `bar' instead of `zot' in `z'.

is this a known byg?

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