[SunHELP] local copying with regard to symlinks and speed

[sunhelp at sunhelp.org]

I'd like anyone's opinion on local copying of large amounts of files from
one directory to another,
same owner. cp doesn't cut it since it will copy the file that a link points
to as opposed to the
link itself. I currently use: cd <directory>; tar cpf - . | ( cd /newdir &&
tar xpf - ).  This
handles the links find, but I'm curious if I can acheive faster results
using another method.
Maybe gtar is an option?

Thanks for any input.

Solaris 8