brian medley writes:
> I just made a tar file with symbolic links.  When
> I un-tarred it the the links were preserved like in
> the original directory.  What I'm saying is that I
> could not replicate the problem.

this problem only occurs when tarring from the cdrom, and
then only as user.  root has no problem, and user has no
problems when tarring/untarring from the hard disk.

dan moylan