Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <39382948.4C5BFADB@telia.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:38:16 +0200 From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Stanton CC: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: tar.exe can't create directories References: <001a01bfccba$7ff18020$524b2080@berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit could you be running win nt with CYGWIN=ntsec on? /ChJ Richard Stanton wrote: > I've checked all directory permissions, and they look fine. The problem is > that the latest version of tar won't create subdirectories on my disk. For > example: > > [c:\ttt]tar -xvf gnuplot-3.8c.tar > gnuplot-3.8c/ > tar: gnuplot-3.8c: Could not create directory: Permission denied > gnuplot-3.8c/Makefile.in > tar: gnuplot-3.8c/Makefile.in: Could not create file: No such file or > directory > gnuplot-3.8c/README > tar: gnuplot-3.8c/README: Could not create file: No such file or directory > gnuplot-3.8c/stamp-h.in > tar: gnuplot-3.8c/stamp-h.in: Could not create file: No such file or > directory > gnuplot-3.8c/ChangeLog > tar: gnuplot-3.8c/ChangeLog: Could not create file: No such file or > directory > gnuplot-3.8c/INSTALL > > etc. > > Richard Stanton > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com