[Bug 485] scp doesn't preserve symbolic links

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485





------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2003-06-04 23:58 -------
the scp/rcp is 20+ years old and widely deployed - we don't have to option of
unilaterally changing it.

Use rsync, sftp or tar-over-ssh because scp isn't going to copy links. 

(you ignored the patch that I posted to fix the looping)



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