Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Can't extract - get "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers"

[Joerg Schilling]

Alexis Huxley <address@hidden> wrote:

> > That "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers" message that you
> > got was bogus, though.  I installed the following patch.  Thanks
> > for reporting the problem.
>
> No problem, but going back to my unrestorable DAT ... :-)
>
> ... I used 'split -b 1024' and hexdump to try to examine the tar file. The 
> first 1024 bytes are:
>
> 00000000  2e 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |./..............|
> 00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> *
> 00000060  00 00 00 00 30 30 34 30  37 30 30 00 30 30 30 31  |....0040700.0001|
> 00000070  37 35 30 00 30 30 30 31  37 35 30 00 30 30 30 30  |750.0001750.0000|
> 00000080  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00  30 37 37 31 33 35 33 34  |0000000.07713534|
> 00000090  33 33 37 00 30 31 30 35  35 35 00 20 35 00 00 00  |337.010555. 5...|
> 000000a0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

Why don't you just run "tartest" or star on the archive?

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

"tartest" lists deviations from the POSIX.1-1988 standard and star may give
some other hints.

Jörg

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