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Re: [MiNT] Problem with tar + u:/ram

On 11/24/13 09:28, Miro Kropáček wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk <mailto:alanh@fairlite.co.uk>> wrote: 

    Otherwise tar will remove the symlinks, and this is not MiNT
    specific. It happens on Linux too without 'h', but it's common on
    MiNT because we use symlinks for the main directories.
That's a sane explanation but then tell me why this works if I do exactly the same but /usr pointing to a real directory instead of /ram. 

First, I'd use 'h' and then report back.

Alan.