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[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, dan moylan wrote:

> thanks for looking at my problem.
>
> the problem seems to be that tar restores all the files
> (which being from the cdrom have no write permission)
> and then tries to make the symbolic links, but is prevented
> by the lack of write permission in the various restored
> directories.
>
> if one untars, adds write permission recrusively, and then
> untars again, all is as desired.  an ugly solution.
>
> any easy way around this problem?

Did you try making the 'bin' directory (with correct permissions) before
untaring?  Like in:

    $ mkdir bin
    $ chmod u+w bin
    $ gzip -dc bin.tgz | tar -x

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