On 08/26/97 15:35:53 you wrote:

Unfortunately there is no magic way, so you simply have to use your favorite copy command.

The "cp" command does scary things with symlinks and device drivers, so "tar | tar" like you've done, or "find | cpio -pdmv" are better.

Yeah, tar has bugs in differnet versions... and cp is just bad. I prefer "find . -print | cpio -pdumv /path/to/newdir" myself. However, long filenames with spaces in it can break this too. :) Gotta write a fancy shell-script wrapper or something...

Bruce