How can I translate symbolic links from Unix onto Windows ?

Sunday 07 March 2004 2:02:03 pm - 3 replies

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Derick Rethans	Monday 08 March 2004 12:48:48 am AFAIK there is no way for symlinks on Windows, but the -h option of tar will make copies of the files instead of putting the symlinks in the archive. That should do the trick.
Nick Woods	Tuesday 09 March 2004 12:42:59 am Thanks Derick, but I tried this but with no luck :- tar hcf 2004_03_08_01.v3.tar /home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var i then dumped the contents to a file tar tvf 2004_03_08_01.v3.tar > 2004_03_08_01.v2.tar.gz.txt had a look for a file that I know is causing me trouble grep woodsnick.jpg 2004_03_08_01.v2.tar.gz.txt and it still says its a link not a file -rw-rw-rw- apache/apache 0 2004-03-08 13:42:29 home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/woods_nick/196-4-eng-GB/woodsnick.jpg <b>link to</b> /home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/nick_woods/196-2-eng-GB/nick_woods.jpg The strange thing is that if i do 'ls -l' in the original directory the files that tar says are linked (ie home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/woods_nick/196-4-eng-GB/woodsnick.jpg )they just show up as normal files (no 'l' or 'linked to') , and if I download one with smartftp (windows prog) it downloads the original file, yet tar stores them as files and winzip just ignores them do you have any ideas what might be causing this ?
Igor Drozdov	Friday 12 March 2004 8:30:32 am There are some utilities to make symbolic links (junctions) under Windows. I personally like excellent Junction program from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction There are other utilities to check out. http://www.hlm.inc.ru/ is one http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm - is another.

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Monday 08 March 2004 12:48:48 am

AFAIK there is no way for symlinks on Windows, but the -h option of tar will make copies of the files instead of putting the symlinks in the archive. That should do the trick.

Nick Woods

Tuesday 09 March 2004 12:42:59 am

Thanks Derick, but I tried this but with no luck :-
tar hcf 2004_03_08_01.v3.tar /home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var

i then dumped the contents to a file
tar tvf 2004_03_08_01.v3.tar > 2004_03_08_01.v2.tar.gz.txt

had a look for a file that I know is causing me trouble
grep woodsnick.jpg 2004_03_08_01.v2.tar.gz.txt

and it still says its a link not a file
-rw-rw-rw- apache/apache 0 2004-03-08 13:42:29 home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/woods_nick/196-4-eng-GB/woodsnick.jpg <b>link to</b> /home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/nick_woods/196-2-eng-GB/nick_woods.jpg

The strange thing is that if i do 'ls -l' in the original directory the files that tar says are linked (ie home/virtual/site6/fst/home/webmaster/mainwebsite_html/var/plain/storage/images/club_members/woods_nick/196-4-eng-GB/woodsnick.jpg )they just show up as normal files (no 'l' or 'linked to') , and if I download one with smartftp (windows prog) it downloads the original file, yet tar stores them as files and winzip just ignores them

do you have any ideas what might be causing this ?

Igor Drozdov

Friday 12 March 2004 8:30:32 am

There are some utilities to make symbolic links (junctions) under Windows. I personally like excellent Junction program from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

There are other utilities to check out.

http://www.hlm.inc.ru/ is one
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm - is another.

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