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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:19:19 -0500
To: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm DOT Boekhoff AT actfs DOT co DOT uk>,
        "Cygwin News Group" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail
  archive.
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At 11:22 AM 3/1/2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
>The following command:
>
>     strace -o d:/temp/tar.log tar zxvf /d/mcb/download/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz
>
>extracts a load of files but in the middle one of them gives the following error:
>
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/altos.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/amdahl-uts.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4
>     tar: sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4: Cannot utime: Invalid argument
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.3.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.4.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsdi.m4


This is an old problem with Win32 platforms.  aux is a reserved name.  See
the email archives for a discussion of this problem and previously proposed
"solutions". 


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