I have done a few quick trials. I get different behaviour than you (Frank). I find that the contents of the tar seem fine when produced. If you then 'forget' the tar and then reopen, the filenames are still correct, but all the filetype information has been lost, all files being typed as text. Never having produced a tar before, I assume this is incorrect. I am using SparkFS (v. 1.43) to produce the tar in the first place. The version of the tar module is also 1.43. I am quite happy to try further tests if that would be any help. -- Chris Johnson To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling