Problem with tar

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <1560 at cash.cs.utexas.edu> luong at cs.utexas.edu (Hue Nhu Luong) writes:

>	tar -xvf xloadimage.3.01.tar
>	tar: can't set time on Makefile.std: Not owner
>	tar: README: HELP - extract write error: Permission denied

Sounds like you are on sysV where non-root users can change a file's
ownership and tar defaults to restoring the original owners id.  Use the
o option to make all the files owned by yourself:
tar xovf file

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us