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From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: tar bug?
Date: 18 Jul 1996 19:21:39 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida
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We're having a problem when restoring from a tar archive, whether from 
tape or file.  Access perms for "other" are never restored, they always
end up as no access.  This is a major headache, one a recent restore, I
had to hand-set the perms on hundreds of files.

Am I failing to include some switch on creation or extraction?  Or is 
this just a bug?