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The Joys of Compressed Files & Soft Links

patrick — Tue, 2006-08-08 21:14

I have saved the world yet again... Ok, maybe not the world, but I did help a friend out.

MinceR over @ irc.psionics.net#dnd3e was having issues with some shell scripts used in a C program. After asking a bunch of questions & debating various possibilities there was only 1 last thing that I could think of. I suggested that if the code had been extracted from a compressed file there's a possibility that the compression utility doesn't understand how to deal w/ soft links.

Sure enough, he used a different compression utility & instead of bad files the links appeared, however they pointed to the wrong location.

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