On 2013-06-04 09:52, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/3/2013 5:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
But why create it as a zip file in the first place?

Because creating tarballs on Windows is a big problem, not the least of
which you can't create symlinks on Windows, so even if you found a
working Windows tar program you still haven't solved the problem.

You can create symlinks on Windows, on versions later than XP. Although I don't know if they're compatible with Posix.

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/Jacob Carlborg

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