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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:47:13 +0000
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christoph@lameter.com wrote:

> Full symlink support. Yes, tar creates symlinks and the vfat fs makes .lnk
> files out of the symlinks. when ls displays the directory contents the
> vfat fs recognizes the .lnk files and tells the os that there is a
> symlink. Its fully transparent. The .lnk files are only visible
> under windoze.


the paths in windows looked like this:
		c:\folder\file

thus, under linux, all the links would be broken links anyway (and vice 
versa).


Banka.

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