there's the --no-same-owner option listed in the --help which causes
extracted files to be extracted as yourself, but I'm sure you know that
already.  I've often thought that a tool that mounts a tar archive like
a file system would be very useful, if it existed it would work for
this purpose.

I think the "Norton Commander" and clones (Midnight commander, etc)
can do this -- treat a tar as a file system.  Google search for
"mount a tar archive like a file system" found this comparison of
graphical file managers,

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/System/Files/File-Managers/1900/

including Xnc which looks like it might be your tool.

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:49, Matt G wrote:
> Hey Guys:
> 
> I have a whole bunch of tar files that contain files with incorrect owners
> and/or groups.  I want to change the owners/groups of the all of these files
> without having to untar, change, tar them back.  Does anyone know if this is
> possible / how to go about it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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