Petcher, Daniel wrote:
What version of tar is your Cygwin including?
$ tar --version
Thank you for your reply.
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.19
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
BTW, on Linux, it is
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
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