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From: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens@coho.net>
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Subject: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:48:17 -0700
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OK, I cleaned up after by debacle last night improperly removing Cygwin, 
and got it reinstalled properly.  Now, a new problem starting from scratch.

Previously, I have been using a native Windows unzipper to extract binary 
packages into my Cygwin directory.  It has always worked properly, but I 
decided it's probably a bad idea because of possible issues 
permission/attribute bits and shortcuts.  Funny enough, I have only had 
problems now that I've tried to use tar from the Cygwin command prompt.

In this case, from the Cygwin root, I tried to extract the Cygipc package 
using tar -xvzf ...  In all cases where a new directory was created, files 
were not extracted into it because of permission errors.  When I checked 
the Windows permissions on these folders, I found that ownership had been 
assigned to "Administrator", not "Administrators", permissions were 
incorrectly for "Everyone", and permissions for a non-existent user called 
"None" were added.

After hunted through the whole directory tree, and fixed the permissions on 
about 10 different directories, I was able to extract the package just fine 
using Power Archiver for Windows.  I was afraid to try with tar again 
because I don't know if the file permissions would come out mangled like 
those of the directories were.

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