[Bug-tar] Bug report for tar 1.15

[Maurizio Loreti]

*** tar 1.15 does not recognize files uncompressed by bzip2 (while tar 
*** 1.14 does).  example:

address@hidden 41 $ bzip2 -V
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001.
    ... snip ...
address@hidden 42 $ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15
address@hidden 43 $ tar xjf /usr/archive/dist/fontforge_full-20041218.tar.bz2
address@hidden 44 $ bzcat /usr/archive/dist/fontforge_full-20041218.tar.bz2 | 
tar xf -
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
address@hidden 45 $ bzip2 -dc /usr/archive/dist/fontforge_full-20041218.tar.bz2 
| tar xf -
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
address@hidden 46 $

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Maurizio Loreti                       http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy        address@hidden