I'm sorry I posted the wrong command above... J:\Temp Folders\wbtTemp>tar -c -f MDSTop.tar Top
J:\Temp Folders\wbtTemp>tar -t -v -f MDSTop.tar drwsrwsrwx user/group 0 2008-03-01 16:44 Top/ drwsrwsrwx user/group 0 2008-03-01 15:41 Top/Middle/ drwsrwsrwx user/group 0 2008-03-01 15:41 Top/Middle/Bottom/ creates the same archive with only 3 folders in it.