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RE: B19 tar.exe changes file dates
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- Subject: RE: B19 tar.exe changes file dates
- From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton at haas dot berkeley dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:35:45 -0700
A followup - the problem I mention below occurs on HPFS formatted disks, but
NOT on NTFS disks. On NTFS disks, file dates are not modified.
Richard Stanton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Stanton [mailto:stanton@Haas.Berkeley.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 1998 10:04 AM
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: B19 tar.exe changes file dates
>
>
> I've just noticed that when I use the B19 tar.exe to extract files
> from a .tar archive (using, for example, "tar -xvf file.tar"), the
> date/time on all the files extracted is changed to that on which tar
> is run, rather than that stored in the archive.
>
> Do any of the following exist?
>
> a. A way to change the behavior of the program so that times/dates
> are not mofified.
>
> b. An updated B19 tar.exe that doesn't do this.
>
> c. Another tar.exe that works properly under NT and 95
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Richard Stanton
>
>
>
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