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Joe, In your P.S. I read that you are having problems with JAR and ZIP files. Since I have used symbolic links quite a bit in the past and haven't run into these problems, I thought I would check it out. You are right that there appears to be some issues but it appears that a hard link did work in my tests. I also found that a symbolic link to a directory always works (which is what I must have always done or something broke). I did find an example in IBM's 4.5 manual saying you should create symbolic links to the JDK jars you add to the ext directory, implying that it worked at one point or that the ext directory/JDK jars are somehow different. David ...Joe P.S. I have identified one major problem with symbolic links. Neither ZIP nor JAR can handle them. If you have a symbolic link, rather than just include the link in the ZIP file, it attempts to include what the link was pointing to. In my case, since I have a recursive link, the utilities fail miserably.
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