Re: [Bug-tar] obsolescent base-64 headers

[Joerg Schilling]

Mike G <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a few tar files I created under Fedora Core 1.  I have since
> upgraded to FC2 (I wiped the hard drive clean and did a fresh install). 
> All the tar files I created under FC1 won't extract under FC2.
>
> I just installed tar-1.14-2 and am still having the same problems.
>
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Read 4223 bytes from latest_backup_save
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> The tar files were compressed using bzip2 after they were created.  

Did you try to use star?

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

        Jörg

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