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Re: tar.exe can't create directories
- To: Richard Stanton <stanton at Haas dot Berkeley dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: tar.exe can't create directories
- From: Christian Jönsson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:38:16 +0200
- CC: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <001a01bfccba$7ff18020$524b2080@berkeley.edu>
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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