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#160 symlinks don't work in tar files

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nobody
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2015-11-20
2015-11-20
Gannet
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When creating tar files, symbolic links are not stored with the correct flag to indicate that are symbolic links.
When extracting a tar file that does contain proper symbolic links, these are similarly not recreated with the correct flag.
Other archive formats seem to handle symlinks correctly.

p7zip 15.09, OS X 10.11

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