> So -p is more than just "preserve modification time"?!? At least on my GNU tar ...
-p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) ;-) > That's a new one on me. One never stops learning. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------