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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:38:16 +0200
From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= <c DOT christian DOT joensson AT telia DOT com>
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To: Richard Stanton <stanton AT Haas DOT Berkeley DOT EDU>
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Subject: Re: tar.exe can't create directories
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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
>
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