Re: NuLib v3.23 now available

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

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.

>|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)

Brian: try tar -\? and see if it has unlisted options... maybe the man page
is wrong.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
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