Re: [Bug-tar] Using tar on a file with a non-ASCII filename

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Ruth Griswold <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> When I try to use the tar -list command on the file, I get the
> following:
>       "macmini:~/Desktop macmini$ tar --list -f Demo.tar.bz2
>       tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>       tar: Skipping to next header
>       tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>       tar: Read 7182 bytes from Demo.tar.bz2
>       tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors"

You have forgotten to tell us what versions of GNU tar are you running.
>From the above output I can deduce it is something prior to version
1.15. Am I correct? In that case, please upgrade to the recent version
(v.1.18 was released yesterday), because it fixes both the automatic
file format recognition (the problem described by the above error
message), and the extraction of filenames with non-ASCII characters
(which the rest of your letter addresses).

Regards,
Sergey