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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
