[guest - Tue Oct 14 20:17:40 2003]:
Show quoted text> The code for chmoding the output file seems to have gone missing.
>
> Fixed by adding at approx line 419 in Archive/Tar.pm:
>
> chmod $entry->mode, $full or
> $self->_error( qq[Could not set permissions on '$full'] );
You are right, and this is very odd indeed, since the patch that ups the version number
to 1.05 is actually applied /after/ the chmod code...
I've just uploaded 1.06 to CPAN which fixes this (and a few other things).
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.