Tar on Windows XP

Hi

I am trying to create a tar archive on Windows XP with the Perl code below.
However, when I look at the archive created (using WinZip 10.0) all the
directory information is lost, and when I untar it using WinZip all I get is
all the files in the same directory. Can some kind person please tell me how
I can create the tar file so that when it is untar'd the directory
structure will be preserved.

Thanks
David

use Archive::Tar;
use IO::Zlib;
use File::Find;

$dir = "c:/docume~1/david/somedir";
$archive = "c:/docume~1/david/archive.tar";
$tar = Archive::Tar->new;

(@files);
find(\&wanted, $dir);
$tar->add_files(@files);
$tar->write($archive);

sub wanted{
push(@files,$File::Find::name);
}


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