On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to have one of my build files un-tar a "tar" file. But it
> looks like symlinks in the tar file are trashed when expanding the
> archive (it creates a zero-length file instead).
Java doesn't know about symlinks and the classes that implement the
<untar> task don't deal with them.
> Similarly, "zip" files created with symlinks (using the "-y" flag to
> zip) are also mangled:
Same here. I wonder what Winzip would do with them 8-)
> Is there *any* way to do this without forking off an external "zip"
> or "tar" task?
No.
Stefan
