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#307 tar-Files with linked files faild to extract correct
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2012-12-07
2004-12-03
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I tried to exctract a tar-File with 7-Zip which has a
link on some file in it. I submit the important part of
this file.
In this file you find a SubDir called "NachOS-4.1" in
this dir, there is a sub-dir called "coff2noff", inside
there is a file called "noff.h", this file is linked to
the same file placed in the
"NachOS-4.1/code/userprog/"-dir.
After extracting this archive, the file in the
"coff2noff" dir should be the same as in the
"code/userprog"-dir.
But this failed and the file has a size of 0 byte.
With other unpacker (e.g. TotalCommander
build-in-untar, and the untar-commandline-tool) there
is no problem with this archive.
Thx, DaKaLKa
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Hi -
I chose 7zip (4.42) as my primary and somewhat only (un)packer on a newly installed WinXP.
This bug, however, is a real show stopper. In 4.42 7zip does not unpack a tgz or tar at all,
if it contains (Linux) soft links. 7zip simply states, that the "archive is not supported".
WinRAR, on the other hand, unpacked that file fine - at least somewhat ;-) Since it cannot
create the link, it says that it wasn't able to create the file. This is not perfect, but
it's a lot better than doing nothing...
I vote for raising this bugs priority.