On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Homyar Bhathena wrote:
> If I try to untar any file in my dos partition I get the following error
> for all files
>
> Mandel/README
> tar: Mandel/README: Cannot chown to uid 100 gid 100: Operation not
> permitted
>
> But the same file is Untarred without any error in my linux partition.
> Why can't I Untar a file in my dos partition???
This is not a problem untarring, but a problem setting the perms for the
file. DOS/Windows has no concept of file ownership (like you didn't
already know that) so obviously can't handle `advanced features' like
uids.
Use Winzip to open your tarred files and extract them to any directory.
Ignore errors.
Philip
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