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[Mike McCarty]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 05Dec2006 17:59, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> | Is there an archive format which does handle links properly? I'm talking
> | about being able to store stuff on CDROM and get it back.
> 
> Tar does.

I was not aware that tar can handle hard and soft links
stored in it. I thought that the cpio and the tar people
each accused the other group of not handling links properly.

Mike
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