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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: NuLib v3.23 now available
- Message-ID: <74wV03ZYc4Hp00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:19:02 GMT
- References: <9212132358.AA26544@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> <81Et03gBc3RJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Dec17.103800.7886@scorch.apana.org.au>
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- In article <1992Dec17.103800.7886@scorch.apana.org.au> lgarde@scorch.apana.org.au (Leon Garde) writes:
- >fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
- >|In article <9212132358.AA26544@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
- >|>won't let me create the files because I don't own them. Is there some flag
- >|>in tar I don't know about? -o and -p don't seem to help.
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- >|Your version of tar must be brain-dead; I've never seen this happen before.
-
- >Well, maybe its not 'tar' which is causing Brian's problem ...
- >It maybe the operating system which doesnt allow him to create files
- >he doesnt own. (Quite likely, I'd say ..)
-
- Irrelevant. tar shouldn't be trying in the first place. I've been grabbing
- .tar.Z files for a while and they've always come out owned by me.
-
- >The solution : yes there probably is a flag you 'dont know about'.
- >It would be one which makes all files , that you untar, yours.
-
- He tried them. They didn't work. (see the original message)
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- Brian: try tar -\? and see if it has unlisted options... maybe the man page
- is wrong.
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-