perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000001001000101"))'

You shouldn't use Archive::Tar::Win32 directly. Just use Archive::Tar, and it will use the Win32 version behind, to fix some resources that doesn't work in the OS Win32.

From the POD:
Although rich in features, it is known to not work on Win32 platforms. On those platforms, Archive::Tar will silently and transparently fall back to Archive::Tar::Win32.

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

Well, if you really mean all the options, you won't actually find this part in the Archive::Tar module -- the whole option set is only available in the command-line version of tar). Of course, the range of options varies slightly depending on which version of command-line tar you're talking about (GNU tar's option set is a good and at least as broad as the versions that come "standard" on non-linux versions of unix, but is also somewhat different from all of them).

You'll see from the Arcihve::Tar man page that it provides methods that will cover the create, append, replace, list (tabulate), and extract functions, as well as (un)compression. The listing of files is flexible (you get to choose what file properties to list) and extraction can be to a scalar variable or to a file.

Everything else about command-line tar -- files to include or exclude from an operation (specified by path, date or whatever), recursion through a directory tree to create a tar set, comparing file dates to decide whether the tarred file is newer or older than a corresponding disk file, and so on -- is stuff you will need to do on your own, probably using other modules, like File::Find.

If you want all the command-line option functionality, why not just use the basic command-line tool -- it has been ported to windows, and is natively available for unix/linux and now even macs (via OSX). Use perl scripting as a wrapper for it, in case that makes tool easier for you to use.

Archive::Tar is a totally cool module that enables a lot of stuff that would be awkward or impossible using just the tar command, but replicating all the options functionality of tar (given that tar already provides that) seems unnecessary.