From: "Donald Stevens" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: I cannot extract files from grx-2.3.1.tar Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:21:12 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.227.90.110 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 980796202 63.227.90.110 (Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:23:22 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:23:22 CST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I have put grx-2.3.1.tar.gz in \djgpp\contribs (the name dos gives it is grx-23~1.gz) and tried to extract files using dos programs gzip etc, I get lots of lines of output on screen and error messages but no files extracted. So I booted my machine to Linux and managed to get grx-2.3.1.tar ok, when I use ls -al command I see: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4966400 Jan27... grx-2.3.1.tar then when I use tar -xvf grx-2.3.1.tar I get lots of output such as: tar grx-2.3.1/addons/bmp/bmp.c: Cannot chown to uid 500 gid 100: Operation not permitted I am running this as root. What is the problem with ownership? How do I get the files? Donald Stevens dstevens6 AT qwest DOT net