Greetings, attached is the patch to update Archive::Tar to 1.42. Previously, the file t/99_pod.t has been removed afterwards, only to be re-included in a later patch. For clarity, this test is skipped under PERL_CORE: plan skip_all => "Pod tests disabled under perl core" if $ENV {PERL_CORE}; However, patch generation (and completeness) is much easier if we can include all test files from the CPAN distribution into core. So if there's no objection, please apply the attached patch including the t/99_pod.t section. Below is the changelog for this release, which includes patches for the VMS issues as reported by Craig and John: * important changes in version 1.42 13/12/2008: - Address #40426: Archive Tar to support direct Archive::Tar::File adds It is now possible to add Archive::Tar::File objects via $tar- >add_files - Address #40016 (Archive::Tar assumes $> won't change): CAN_CHOWN is now a dynamic check upon extraction. This allows scripts to drop privileges when desired - Address take 2 of #39933: [PATCH] handle ../ directory name on VMS John M. sent in a better way to do directory name translation. Cheers, -- Jos Boumans "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark TwainThread Next