Like a few other people I've had problems with the tarfileset and so downloaded the latest Tar.java to try that. I've still got a problem. Using this build file <?xml version="1.0" ?> <project name="SCARE" default="Build"> <target name="Build"> <tar tarfile="${target.dir}/scare.tar"> <tarfileset dir="${target.dir}/DatabaseLoaderConfigs" includes="release.ksh"/> </tar> </target> </project> Gives this output $ ant -verbose -Dtarget.dir=c:/cygwin/home/helliwm/release -buildfile test.xml Ant version 1.3 compiled on March 2 2001 Buildfile: test.xml Detected Java Version: 1.3 Detected OS: Windows NT parsing buildfile c:\cygwin\home\helliwm\dev\cvsdata\scare\test.xml with URI = file:c:/cygwin/home/helliwm/dev/cvsdata/scare/test.xml Project base dir set to: C:\cygwin\home\Helliwm\dev\cvsdata\scare Build sequence for target `Build' is [Build] Complete build sequence is [Build] Build: [tar] Nothing to do: C:\cygwin\home\helliwm\release\scare.tar is up to date. BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second Before the run target.dir is empty apart from DatabaseLoaderConfigs/release.ksh After the run its still the same. I've recompiled Tar.java will a new log message in it to make sure I was picking up the new version and I am. Anybody any suggestions? Am I just doing something stupid? Thanks -- Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have received this e-mail in error or wish to read our e-mail disclaimer statement and monitoring policy, please refer to http://www.drkw.com/disc/email/ or contact the sender. ----------------------------------------------------------------------