On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
>I think that the problem occurs because there is no such thing as "uid" and
>"gid" in the Windoze file system! So when tar tries to set the file
>properties, it reports a failure ... I don't know why it shouldn't save the
>untarred file anyway ...
>
>Sameer.
You think right. tar will save the file correctly, only permissions will not be
preserved.
Its a non *nix bug.
Devdas Bhagat
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