Ross, Yes that looks very useful too. If necessary I will try that.
Thanks Woodsey
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Hamblin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: Ubuntu file permissions
Hi Rob,
You can use tar to get around that problem, tar -pvczf /mnt/floppy/filename.tar.gz /home/rob/Xinstall.sh will create a tarball with permissions intact on the floppy drive. When you extract it onto another machine with tar -pvxzf /mnt/floppy/filename.tar.gz the file will appear with the permissions as they were on the original machine. This method should work no matter which filesystem is on the floppy disk.
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