From: "Bryan Rosenburg" Subject: "install -d" and "cp -p" fail [b18 on Win NT 4.0] 14 May 1997 17:39:08 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <85256497.00462F5D.00.cygnus.gnu-win32@watngi01.watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Lotus-FromDomain: IBM RESEARCH Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I'm new to this mailing list, so I apologize if this subject has already been covered. I just upgraded from b17.1 to b18 on a Windows NT 4.0 system. The commands "install -d foo" and "cp -p bar foo", which worked fine before the upgrade, started to fail in similar ways. In both cases the error message is "foo: Invalid argument". I think the problem is that I did not have /etc/passwd and /etc/group files on my system. When I created these files, "install -d" and "cp -p" started to work properly. The b18 README.txt file mentions the programs "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" that are useful for creating /etc/passwd and /etc/group files on Windows NT systems. I think it should also say that these files are now required for the correct operation of certain commands. Bryan Rosenburg IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".