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- From: taob@r-node.gts.org (Brian Tao)
- Subject: Re: NuLib v3.23 now available
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.080152.2504@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
- References: <9212132358.AA26544@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> <81Et03gBc3RJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:01:52 GMT
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- In article <81Et03gBc3RJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
- >
- >Your version of tar must be brain-dead; I've never seen this happen before.
-
- No doubt. I think it has something to do with my 'umask' setting. I have
- to set it to 000 and that seems to work on some of the files, but afterwards
- I check the directories, and they are all in mode 700 or something similar.
- If I manually create the directories, things work out.
-
- >Do you have problems with all "tar" archives, or just this one? Can you
- >unpack tar archives from other users on your machine?
-
- Any tar file I don't make myself. It definitely sounds like something
- I'm doing wrong then (or a wierd version of tar). I'll check with the powers-
- that-be here...
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