>>>>> "Alan" == Alan L Tyree <Alan> writes:

Alan> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 11:42, Peter Chubb wrote: <SNIP>
>> Where do the symlinks point?  If they're absolute symbolic links
>> you'll get that behaviour.  Use the `symlinks' perl script to
>> convert from absolute to relative links before you tar up the
>> directories.
Alan> Thanks Peter. I'll have a look, but none of the links are
Alan> cross-directory. A sample is:

Alan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]$ ls -sal banking.html 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 alant
Alan> alant 27 Oct 4 2002 banking.html -> /home/alant/www/banking.htm

Alan> and it looks exactly the same on the Sun except the links don't
Alan> work until I redefine them manually.


Exactly -- they're absolute links (the target of the link begins with
a slash).

If it said:
   banking.html -> ./banking.htm
it'd all work.

Peter C
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