From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: File permissions? 19 Jun 1997 04:29:57 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC7CBF.A6328DE0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Hmmmz'" Encoding: 19 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hmmmz wrote: > > Whenever I extract a tarfile that apparently changes the default > permissions on a file i get an error like so: > > tar: Could not change access and modification times of > readline-2.1/support: Permission denied > > I have gotten this on Win95 (vfat) Win95 OSR2 (fat32) and NT4 (ntfs) > running as administrator on NT. > It seems to me, it's impossible to change timestamps of directories on win32... -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".