[NCLUG] tar questions

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:58:58AM -0600, rosing at peakfive.com wrote:
> This guy in India has a CD with a tar file on it.  I think there's
> only one tar file on it but I might be wrong.  The tar file should
> contain 3 files, brasm, brlink, and brdbg.  When they run
> 
>   tar -xvf /mnt/cdrom/beast*.exe.tar
> 
> they get
> 
>  tar : archive contains future timestamps 2002-06-12 07:56:28

since we are now past 2002-06-12, their machine has its time set wrong.

>  brasm
>  tar : brasm cannot open : file exists

a file called brasm already exists in the current directory.  tar is declining to overwrite it.  maybe it's not owned by them?

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