From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: File permissions?
19 Jun 1997 04:29:57 -0700
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        "'Hmmmz'"
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Hmmmz wrote:
> 
> Whenever I extract a tarfile that apparently changes the default
> permissions on a file i get an error like so:
> 
> tar: Could not change access and modification times of
> readline-2.1/support: Permission denied
> 
> I have gotten this on Win95 (vfat) Win95 OSR2 (fat32) and NT4 (ntfs)
> running as administrator on NT.
> 

It seems to me, it's impossible to change timestamps of directories on win32...

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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