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Cygwin is installed as part of a proposed deployment solution that's 
competing with MSI (*shudder*),
so it's indeed a Cygwin problem. The current archiver on the Unix 
(Solaris) side happens to be
tar, but anything that could be packed under Solaris and unpacked with a 
Cygwin command line
in such a way to preserve Windows ACLs is what is needed to help slay 
the MSI dragon.

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Mark McWiggins wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm working with a company that deploys tar files from Unix to Windows
>>where the Windows administrators set their directories up with various
>>ACLs.
>>
>>Cygwin's default TAR program destroys these ACLs when files are
>>unpacked into these directories.
>>
>>Is there a command-line program that can unpack a tar file in such a
>>way as to leave the ACLs alone?  WinZip can do this, but its
>>command-line addon only handles ZIP files.
>>    
>>
>
>Unless you really need to use cygwin for other things, it sounds very
>much like you are asking for a non-cygwin way to deal with tar files.
>
>This really isn't a list for discussing non-cygwin solutions to
>problems.  I see that a google search for "tar windows" unearths quite a
>few options so you should be able to find some no-cygwin program which
>solves your problem fairly easily.
>
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