Quite an old issue, its due to the special handling of .exe files if you search
the archives you'll find lots of mentions of it.
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Schneider"
$ touch myfile myfile.exe
$ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile
$ tar -xvf mytar.tar
Only myfile will be written to the filesystem
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