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From: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Is there a proper way to do the tar extraction that
> faithfully preserves all the permissions?  This is a mess, but at
> least I know what is most likely wrong now.

For doing OS type stuff, you should probably use dump(8).  It handles
things like hard-linked files and such better.

-- 
Matt Piechota