Hello: I believe I have the latest cygwin, tar, and bash loaded. When I take a Linux tar file (~500k), containing a mix of files and symbolic links, untarring with cygwin's tar randomly creates several empty files instead of symbolic links. ( This linux tar file is one I create, it changes every week or two. ) If I repeat the same tar command, different empty files result instead of the symbolic links. So after each untar I search for empty files, and then untar the corresponding symbolic links again - so far this workaround has always worked.
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