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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 3:20 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> Use the -p option to tar to preserve stuff.. there's a few more options in
> the tar manpage that do all sorts of preserving permissions, owners, types,
> etc.
My understanding is that is only for extraction and not for creating the
archive. That information is saved anyway, check it with "tar tvf foo.tar".
Chris
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