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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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