On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
Make sure that the directory into which the distribution unpacks (as well as any subdirectories) are all world-writable (octal mode 777). This is so that old versions of `tar' which preserve the ownership and permissions of the files from the tar archive will be able to extract all the files even if the user is unprivileged.Does anyone have a cite for what version, how old? (sounds like mid 1980's, actually).
It must not be that old since I have distinct memories of such problems.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
