touch afile link afile hlink ( echo afile; echo afile;echo afile)| cpio -Hustar -oO x.tar
now use tar to see the bug (cpio hides it) tar -tvvf x.tar -rw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 02:03 afile hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 02:03 afile link to afile hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 02:03 afile link to afile Regards Thomas
