From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: tar: Could not change access and modification times:
    Permission denied
30 Jan 1998 16:45:57 -0800
Message-ID: <EnLxGI.3yK.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <000501bd2d58$c751a2f0$b2e2e3d0 AT caliban DOT teamparadigm DOT com>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <000501bd2d58$c751a2f0$b2e2e3d0 AT caliban DOT teamparadigm DOT com>,
Tim Fisher <tfisher AT teamparadigm DOT 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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