On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Mark McWiggins wrote:
I'm working with a company that deploys tar files from Unix to Windows
where the Windows administrators set their directories up with various
ACLs.
Cygwin's default TAR program destroys these ACLs when files are
unpacked into these directories.
Is there a command-line program that can unpack a tar file in such a
way as to leave the ACLs alone? WinZip can do this, but its
command-line addon only handles ZIP files.
Unless you really need to use cygwin for other things, it sounds very
much like you are asking for a non-cygwin way to deal with tar files.
This really isn't a list for discussing non-cygwin solutions to
problems. I see that a google search for "tar windows" unearths quite a
few options so you should be able to find some no-cygwin program which
solves your problem fairly easily.
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