djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (10/29/89)
In the flex tar file in pub/gnu on prep.ai.mit.edu, most of the files are read-only even for the owner; this causes a problem with GNU tar 1.07 (at least on my System V box; Unix tar works fine here): when a non-root user tries to extract the archives, tar creates each file with length 0 and the correct permissions, then prints an error message like the following: tar: Could not create file flex/COPYING : Permission denied Probably the flex files should have permission 644 instead of 444, but tar might also need to be fixed if the development version hasn't been yet. -- David J. MacKenzie <djm@wam.umd.edu>