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Symbolic links and 7zip

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Problem

I'm trying to compress a folder into a .7z archive. This folder contains symbolic links to some other stuff outside the folder (both directories and files). Apparently 7zip just archives the link itself which is not what I intended. Is there a way to tell 7zip that I want it to archive the stuff th…

Error Output

C:\...>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 0A3D-CD6E

 Directory of C:\...

09/04/2010  18:12    <DIR>          .
09/04/2010  18:12…

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Fix for: Symbolic links and 7zip

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Apparently 7zip just archives the link it's self which is not what I intended. Is there a way to tell 7zip that I want it to archive the stuff that it links too, not the link its self No, apparently not (unfortunately). There is actually a bug repor…

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