From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) Subject: RE: B19 tar.exe changes file dates 15 May 1998 23:45:41 -0700 Message-ID: <000301bd8027$e438a7c0$8f4b2080.cygnus.gnu-win32@mortgage.berkeley.edu> References: <199805151703.KAA23488@grether.haas.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: 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 > > > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".