From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Oct  1 13:03:13 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1852B16A4B3
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  1 Oct 2003 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp03.web.de [217.72.192.158])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9226943FDD
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  1 Oct 2003 13:03:11 -0700 (PDT)	(envelope-from f.dei@web.de)
Received: from pd958de4c.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.88.222.76] helo=web.de)
	by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128)
	(WEB.DE 4.99 #448)
	id 1A4nBm-0008HC-00
	for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:03:10 +0200
Message-ID: <3F7B3308.4050807@web.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:03:20 +0200
From: Felix Deichmann <f.dei@web.de>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
	rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <20031001122603.B71418-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
	<3F7B0D5C.7080009@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F7B0D5C.7080009@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: f.dei@web.de
Subject: Re: tar vs cp
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:03:13 -0000

Chuck Swiger wrote:

> tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" the 
> contents of the link.

Also true for cp -R? :-)