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RE: File permissions?
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Hmmmz'" <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Subject: RE: File permissions?
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:47:00 +0400
- Encoding: 19 TEXT
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...
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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