Re: [Bug-tar] A possible bug in Cygwin tar?

[Tim Kientzle]

On Apr 8, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Robert Miles wrote:

> I've found what might be a bug with either tar or the
> nocem.0.93.tar.tar file - but I'm too unfamiliar with Linux
> to be sure.
> 
> I downloaded it under 64-bit Windows Vista, then copied it
> to a Cygwin directory (Cygwin provides Linux emulation
> under Windows).  The Cygwin version of tar is unable to
> recognize it as a valid tar file.
> 
> $ tar -tvf nocem-0.93.tar.tar
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Where did you download the file from?

Tim