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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!twwells!bill
  3. From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
  4. Subject: Cpio and symbolic links (was Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough.)
  5. Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
  6. References: <1992Aug4.162010.16364@mks.com> <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com>
  7. Message-ID: <Bszz1K.28B@twwells.com>
  8. Keywords: cpio, bug, symbolic link
  9. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:39:18 GMT
  10. Lines: 8
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  12. This may be relevant to those who use cpio for backups: it appears
  13. that cpio generates bogus output for symbolic links. I haven't
  14. checked this out fully so someone else may want to try and confirm
  15. this.
  16.  
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  18. Bill                            { uunet | decwrl | telesci }!twwells!bill
  19. bill@twwells.com
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