On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote:
The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't use up any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked
                ^
On NTFS partitions.  It will on any kind of FAT partition though.

I meant that it didn't take more space inside the tar file. I don't mind if it takes twice the disk space once extracted.

Alfred


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