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Is Windows able to store Symbolic links or Hard links in archive files?
I see 7-Zip has these options:
-snh : store hard links as links
-snl : store symbolic links as links
but trying them with Zip, Tar and 7z archive seems to store the actual file, or some corrupted small file rather than something that can be a usuable link upon extracting.
This seems to only be an issue with p7zip on Windows:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/244075.html
The official version works as expected:
