From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 09:50:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA28764 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28759 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA04965; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:53:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:53:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601161753.KAA04965@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , Michael Smith , tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <10780.821814423@time.cdrom.com> References: <199601161724.KAA04736@rocky.sri.MT.net> <10780.821814423@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Since the ZIP format doesn't have a concept of links, it will only store > > filenames. Unfortunately, this means that we can't do symlinks inside > > of zip files. :( > > Heh? I actually added the 3rd parameter after seeing the following in > the help for `zip' > > -y store symbolic links as the link instead of the referenced file Well I'll be. You learn something new everyday. :) > > Hmm, the above 2 could get interesting. I'm not sure how you'd do that, > > in the same way I'm not sure how you'd do that with files inside a tar > > file. > > You're a clever boy, you'll figure it out.. :-) We'll see... Nate