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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Cpio and symbolic links (was Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough.)
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
References: <1992Aug4.162010.16364@mks.com> <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com>
Message-ID: <Bszz1K.28B@twwells.com>
Keywords: cpio, bug, symbolic link
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:39:18 GMT
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This may be relevant to those who use cpio for backups: it appears
that cpio generates bogus output for symbolic links. I haven't
checked this out fully so someone else may want to try and confirm
this.
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