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* Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ?
@ 2003-09-29 19:55 Frédéric L. W. Meunier
  2003-09-30 14:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier @ 2003-09-29 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Anybody know how (better if recursively) ? I extracted a
tarball under Cygwin and later copied it to a Linux partition.
Obviously all Cygwin shortcuts created at extract time are
copied, breaking it.

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* Re: Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ?
  2003-09-29 19:55 Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ? Frédéric L. W. Meunier
@ 2003-09-30 14:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2003-09-30 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> Anybody know how (better if recursively) ? I extracted a
> tarball under Cygwin and later copied it to a Linux partition.
> Obviously all Cygwin shortcuts created at extract time are
> copied, breaking it.

tar it up on one machine, untar it on the other machine.  cp doesn't
keep shortcuts.

Corinna

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