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[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, dan moylan wrote:

>
> as user, i mounted a cdrom and tared a directry from it.
> after untarring the directory onto the hard drive, i saw
> that all symbolic links were gone, replaced by zero sized
> files with zero permissions.  the untarring also produces
> "permission denied" error messages.

I just made a tar file with symbolic links.  When I un-tarred it the the
links were preserved like in the original directory.  What I'm saying is
that I could not replicate the problem.

What version of tar are you using?  tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19 is what I tried.

What are the permissions in the directories you are tarring / tarring into?

Can you post the tar file?

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