On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> It's mandatory that I pass through Windows, due to a VPN program issue.
> When I copy the files over to Winblows it loses the symbolic links.
Yes. Windows does not support the concept of a filesystem symlink at all,
and of course Unix permissions do not map to Windows NT ACLs very well (if at
all). You cannot really blame Windows for this; it just has a different
feature set. Linux does a lousy job with ACLs and Unicode filenames, for
example.
What you need to do is prepare the Linux data in such a way that it is
portable and filesystem transparent, before it leaves the Linux system.
One way to do this, as you correctly guessed, is to use "tar" to package up
the files into a single tar archive. A tar file is very portable; as long as
the intermediate systems support raw, 8-bit binary data files (pretty much
anything, these days), you are all set. You can either burn a copy of that
tar file onto CD using Windows, or use a Linux box and some of the software
other people on this list have pointed out.
Another option is to use "mkisofs" to create an ISO filesystem image (with
Rock Ridge extensions) of the file structure you want, and then transmit that
image file through your intermediate systems. Once you have it on the target
system, you can burn it with any CD-R software that lets you record from a
"raw" image -- Windows, Linux, Mac, whatever.
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