From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!hocsb!hocsd!jis Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: chown Article-I.D.: hocsd.125 Posted: Wed Sep 8 14:43:13 1982 Received: Fri Sep 10 04:11:28 1982 I have always wondered why tar did not provide an option that would suppress chowning extracted files to the ownership of the original owner, who more often than not does not exist on the system, (or worse is someone else!). I do not think disallowing chown is a solution to this problem at all! Jishnu Mukerji Bell Laboratories HO 1B-425 (201) 949-3427 harpo!hocsd!jis