RE: FW: Problem extracting on Windows 2000 and XP

[David Vitali]

Thanks Eli, it has solved the timestamping issue. I did have a further
problem when piping the output of gzip into tar (i.e. gzip ... | tar
...). I got an error like:

        Hmmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive (etc etc)

I solved this using intermediate files:

        Gzip ... >tempfile
        Tar ... <tempfile

And all is well. It's a little clunky but it works.

Thanks again for all of your help and quick response.

-David

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:12 AM
To: David Vitali
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: FW: Problem extracting on Windows 2000 and XP

> From: "David Vitali" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:58:02 -0700
> 
> 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 is a known problem on Windows 2000 and XP: system calls issued by
DOS programs to set a file's timestamp fail due to bugs in their
implementation on these operating systems.

There are workarounds for these problems.  A precompiled version of
Tar 1.12a which should not have this bug is available from this page:

   http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm

If this version does not solve your bug, please report the problems to
address@hidden, a mailing list devoted to DJGPP and DJGPP
ports of GNU utilities.