Problem with permissions - (GNU tar) 1.13.19

[Steve Rauch]

Hello,

The following commands preserve permissions under Windows 98 using (GNU tar) 
1.12

tar -cpvf  file.tar ....
tar -xpvf  file.tar

but do NOT perserve permissions using (GNU tar) 1.13.19

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Steve R.


Steven Rauch
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d:/=>bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05.0(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
d:/=>tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12

Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
d:/=>e:/tmp/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-windows98.2222)
 of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy
Package: JDE version 2.2.8

current state:
==============

Process environment:

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