[H-GEN] I'm stumped.......

Martin Pool mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au
Fri May 22 07:25:53 EDT 1998


>AFAIT there's no way of making tar preserve hard links (although it
>preserves symlinks by default anyway). Of course, they could think
>preserving hard links so trivially obvious and simple that it's
>not worth mentioning in the man page. I'm too lazy to actually try
>it to find out.

The cpio manpage talk about the way it handles hardlinks, but I also
am too virtuous[1] to find out.

--
Martin
[1] for camel-book values of virtue: Laziness, Hubris, and that other 
one.


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