Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:53:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601161753.KAA04965@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <10780.821814423@time.cdrom.com> References: <199601161724.KAA04736@rocky.sri.MT.net> <10780.821814423@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Since the ZIP format doesn't have a concept of links, it will only store > > filenames. Unfortunately, this means that we can't do symlinks inside > > of zip files. :( > > Heh? I actually added the 3rd parameter after seeing the following in > the help for `zip' > > -y store symbolic links as the link instead of the referenced file Well I'll be. You learn something new everyday. :) > > Hmm, the above 2 could get interesting. I'm not sure how you'd do that, > > in the same way I'm not sure how you'd do that with files inside a tar > > file. > > You're a clever boy, you'll figure it out.. :-) We'll see... Nate
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