Hi, I'm having a hard time using tar to install ant on MPE 6.5. For those of you that aren't familiar with ANT, it's a utility to similar to 'make' on steriods. I've download the tar file and tried the following command from the Posix shell. Below is just a snippet... Any clues? More info on ant can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant -=mike shell/iX> cd /usr/local shell/iX> ls bin java man jakarta-ant-1.5.1.tar ldapsdk samba shell/iX> tar -xpf jakarta-ant-1.5.1.tar tar: blocksize = 20 tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/ant: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/antRun: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/antRun.pl: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/complete-ant-cmd.pl: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argu ment tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/runant.pl: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/runant.py: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument ././@LongLink: Unknown file type field value `L' ttar: cannot create file "././@LongLink": No such file or directory tar: checksum error on tape (got 0, expected 2690) tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/docs/manual/api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/si traka/bytecode: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/docs/manual/api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/si traka: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/docs/manual/api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sc m: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *