I thought this was solved *years* ago: depot:~$ ls -l streets.* -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 2501946753 Sep 22 10:37 streets.dbf depot:~$ tar czvf streets.tgz streets.dbf streets.dbf depot:~$ ls -l streets.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 129 Sep 22 11:20 streets.tgz depot:~$ tar tzvf streets.tgz -rw-r--r-- john/john -1793020543 Sep 22 10:37 2001 streets.dbf I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-RC (built Sep 12) John _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message