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Re: tar: Could not change access and modification times: Permission denied
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: tar: Could not change access and modification times: Permission denied
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Christopher Faylor)
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:19:30 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <000501bd2d58$c751a2f0$b2e2e3d0@caliban.teamparadigm.com>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <000501bd2d58$c751a2f0$b2e2e3d0@caliban.teamparadigm.com>,
Tim Fisher <tfisher@teamparadigm.com> wrote:
>tar: Could not change access and modification times of ncurses-4.1/Ada95:
>Permission denied
>
>This is the error message I get whenever I extract something with the tar
>xvzf command. Anybody know if this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
cygwin B18 is not able to change the access and modification times of
a directory. I've submitted changes to allow this for B19. If they are
included they should rectify this error, at least on Windows NT. It may
not be possible to change the time/date on a directory in Windows 95.
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