Craig Berry wrote: !>$ vmstar/extract/verbose/date_policy=none 'tarfile' ! !I prefer not to get the verbose output for such a large distribution !as Perl, though with the output going to a log file it probably !doesn't matter. The /date_policy=none is probably a good idea. Sorry - my mistake. You indeed had tar -xf. I am so accustomed to using tar -xvf myself that I added the /verbose out of habit. It was indeed the /date_policy=none qualifier that I was trying to recommend. Peter Prymmer