Corinna, > Where are you extracting? /usr/src/gzip or C:\cygwin\usr\src\gzip
>What filesystem... FAT32 > ...and is the parent directory writable? in /usr/src: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 14 08:24 gzip/ in /usr: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 9 07:23 src/ (I edited the passwd file and changed my username to root and did the same for the group file because some scripts were complaining if I didn't). >You could send an strace of that > situation, but please just extrace one file so that the strace isn't > that long. I have attached it to this message. I ran strace in the gzip directory with the following options: "strace tar -T extract -zxvf gzip-1.3.3.tar.gz > strace.log 2>&1" (NOTE: "extract" contained the name of a "-r--r--r--" file to extract) I hope this helps, let me know if I can do anything further :). Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
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