Re: FW: Problem extracting on Windows 2000 and XP

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "David Vitali" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:58:02 -0700

> Note that the versions of tar and gzip used in the descriptions
> below were those made available at gnu.org....

> gzip -dc archive.tz | tar -xPvT archive.cmd

> The backup phase works successfully. However, the restore phase
> fails under Windows 2000 and XP with the following error message:

> tar: Archive.tz: Could not change access and modification times: Input or 
> output error (EIO)

This sounds like a problem with case conversion in your filesystem.
Sorry, I don't use Microsoft Windows so I can't be of much help for
you, but perhaps you can work around the problem by telling your
filesystem to use the Unix convention that case is always sensitive in
file names.  Or perhaps someone else on this list with more experience
with Microsoft Windows can chime in with more-accurate advice.

I should warn you that tar 1.12 is quite old now.  I am surprised that
ftp.gnu.org is still distributing a DOS executable for it.  Perhaps we
should stop doing that, as we shouldn't give the false impression that
we're maintaining it.

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Can you please send text mail as plain text?  That saves me time.
Thanks.  For more info, please see "Internet mail: living with
Microsoft Outlook" <http://www.lemis.com/email/fixing-outlook.html>.