Re: NuLib v3.23 now available

[lgarde@scorch.apana.org.au (Leon Garde)]

fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:

|In article <9212132358.AA26544@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
|>    I keep getting permission errors when I tried untarring NuLib.  It
|>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 ..)

The solution : yes there probably is a flag you 'dont know about'.
It would be one which makes all files , that you untar, yours.

IE: it wont try to untar files as somebody elses,
    it untar's the files with you as owner. 
go find out which flag that is !

leon