RE: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151

2009-09-15 Thread Judy Anderson
a shortcut that calls bash to launch emacs. Thanks for the pointer. -Original Message- From: Lee [mailto:ler...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:09 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097

Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151

2009-09-14 Thread Judy Anderson
I need to send a collection of files to a Z/OS machine from a windows machine. When we were on Windows 2000, we just used "pax". But apparently Microsoft has discontinued pax in Win2003. So we searched for a solution. Cygwin tar SAID it would produce pax format files, but the Z/OS machine do