Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Richard Stanton" To: Subject: cygwin tar program won't create directories on NT machine Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:56:23 -0800 Message-ID: <000b01bf8f81$b4e59080$524b2080@berkeley.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000301bf7ee0$d2185f90$8400000a@costa.cadenet.com.br> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 I have the full cygwin package (20.1) installed on two machines, a Win95 laptop and a NT4 desktop. I've just noticed that the tar.exe program that comes with the installation refuses to create directories on my NT machine, but runs fine on my laptop. For example, trying the command tar -xvf hyperref.tar (which runs fine on my Win95 machine), I get the following errors on my NT machine: tar: hyperref: Could not create directory: Permission denied hyperref/hyperref.dtx tar: hyperref/hyperref.dtx: Could not create file: No such file or directory hyperref/nameref.dtx tar: hyperref/nameref.dtx: Could not create file: No such file or directory hyperref/.zipped etc. Any ideas what's going on? If I manually create the appropriate directories, tar will extract the files OK. It's just the directory creation that is a problem. By the way, the command md hyperref typed at the command line works fine, so there's no real problem creating directories. Thanks for any suggestions. Richard Stanton -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com