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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: How do you find the symbolic links to files.
Message-ID: <9986:Nov2722:09:5190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 22:09:51 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.150716.7268@specialix.co.uk> <1990Nov26.193324.5396@decuac.dec.com> <1990Nov27.155015.24837@specialix.co.uk>
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In article <1990Nov27.155015.24837@specialix.co.uk> jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
  [ on symbolic links ]
> I would hope that tar would copy the contents of the file.

tar must not do this by default. ``These files now take up seventeen
times as much space, because we moved them from another disk via tar.''
Ungood.

---Dan