Hmmm... okay I have no checked all the retrun values as you quite rightly suggested and it appears that $tar->error contains...

"No such file or directory"

That is not good.. so I checked and double checked that the file is there, it is. So I thought to make sure I would do an exsits file test (-e) The test found the file.

So why would Archive::Tar report that the file wasn't there when an exsits test says the file is there?

Here's the revised code

sub extractTarFile{

    print $cgi->header();
    ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(
+time);

    $year = $year + 1900;
    $mon = &formatDigit($mon ++);
    $mday = &formatDigit($mday);
    $hour = &formatDigit($hour);
    $min = &formatDigit($min);
    $sec = &formatDigit($sec);

    $submissionID = "$year-$mon-$mday-$hour-$min-$sec-$user_Name";   #
+yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss

    mkdir "$submittedFiles/$submissionID", 0777 or warn "Cannot make d
+irectory: $!";
    copy ("$tmpFilePosition", "$submittedFiles/$submissionID/$user_Fil
+e_Filename");

    $tarLocation = "$submittedFiles/$submissionID/$user_File_Filename"
+;

    $RC_open = open TARFILE, $tarLocation;

    if (-e TARFILE){
        print $cgi->p("File exsists");
    }

    $RC_new = $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
    $RC_extract = $tar->extract_archive("TARFILE");

    $tar_errors = $tar->error();

    print $cgi->p("Return Val open ($RC_open)");
    print $cgi->p("Return Val New tar ($RC_new)");
    print $cgi->p("Return Val Extract ($RC_extract)");
    print $cgi->p("Tar Location is ($tarLocation)");
    print $cgi->p("Tar errors ($tar_errors)");
    print $cgi->p("submittedFiles ($submittedFiles)");
    print $cgi->p("submissionID ($submissionID)");
    print $cgi->p("userFileFilename ($user_File_Filename)");

    close TARFILE;
}
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And the new output from the browser...

File exsists

Return Val open (1)

Return Val New tar (Archive::Tar=HASH(0x3be9cc))

Return Val Extract ()

Tar Location is (/webroot/service/servicelist_submission/submitted_files/2002-09-08-08-32-25-Mark/sample.tar)

Tar errors (No such file or directory)

submittedFiles (/webroot/service/servicelist_submission/submitted_files)

submissionID (2002-09-08-08-32-25-Mark)

userFileFilename (sample.tar)

Whilst I'm at it I'll show you the permissions on the files as well although I don't think it's that...?...

mf139823@esweb: pwd
/apps/webroot/service/servicelist_submission/submitted_files/2002-09-08-08-32-25-Mark
308 mf139823@esweb: ls -l
total 932
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody       512 Oct  8 08:32 ./
drwxrwxrwx  23 mf139823 staff       1024 Oct  8 08:32 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody    461824 Oct  8 08:32 sample.tar
mf139823@esweb

Am I doing something crazy?

Please help!

M