Symbolic links in Rar v2 are not restored as links
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When unpacking Rar v2 (made with Rar v2 - v4) symbolic links are not restored as links but as files containing file name.
$ rar3 a -ol ln-s.rar3 dir
$ rar3 x ln-s.rar3 dir
$ ls -l dir
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 Aug 16 21:56 a-link.txt -> a.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 12 Aug 16 21:56 a.txt
$ cat dir/a-link.txt
Lorem ipsum
$ 7zz x ln-s.rar3 dir
$ ls -l dir
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 5 Aug 16 21:56 a-link.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 32 Aug 16 21:56 a.txt
$ cat dir/a-link.txt
a.txt
Old formats support is low priority now.
It's not just 'Old format'. Testing gives funny error.
I'll fix these rar4/rar5 issues in next version.
Thanks for report!