flex/tar read-only permissions problem

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Author: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1989 06:10

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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>

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