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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:20:50 -0500
From: Ivan Dobrianov <id11 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: tar won't restore permissions
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I just upgraded to the latest version of Cygwin. This fixed a problem
that I had with an earler version.

Now I seem to have a worse situation: tar will not restore the original
permissions from an archive. If I have a file in an archive 
-r--r--r-- 1047/everyone 37324 2001-01-19 19:15:21
perspective/myFile.cpp
the command:
tar xvzf myArchive.tgz -p 
will restore it with the permission:
-rw-r--r--

All tar's I've seen so far don't even need the -p to do the right job.
The tar that came with Cygwin B20 also works right.

Has anyone heard of this problem?
Thanks.

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