Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Joerg Schilling < > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > One more question, after using copysymlinks, will it retain the > > > symlinks in Extracted data(folder)? > > > > It will create copies as Win-DOS does not support symlnks. > > For my usecase, I need it to maintain symlinks even after it gets > untarred. I have noticed that WinRar is able to maintain symlinks > after extraction.
I am not sure how this should work, given the fact that Win-DOS does not correctly support symlinks. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363866%28v=vs.85%29.aspx On the other side, are you sure that winrar supports tar archives? You may like to check to list this archive: http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/files/testscripts/pax-big-10g.tar.bz2/download and test whether the listing looks correctly, similar to this: 10737418240 -rw------- jes/glone Jun 15 23:18 2002 10g 0 -rw-r--r-- jes/glone Jun 15 16:53 2002 file star: 1048576 blocks + 3072 bytes (total of 10737421312 bytes = 10485763.00k). I would guess that winrar is unable to list both filenames. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
