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On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" 
>> the contents of the link.
>
> Also true for cp -R? :-)

No, but not all systems have "cp -R", although FreeBSD does.  Likewise 
for the "-p" or "--preserve-permissions" option...

-- 
-Chuck