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Re: [Bug-tar] misidentified tar.bz2 file


From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] misidentified tar.bz2 file
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:11:35 +0100
User-agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05

sam <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 16/02/15 17:19, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Is this a tar file that you can publish?  If not, can you provide a way
> > to reproduce the bug?
>
> Bad file:
> http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/samt/pub/tar/results_9694.tar.bz2
> Good file
> http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/samt/pub/tar/results_9695.tar.bz2

Star unpacks both files using the compress detection code, I introduced in 
February 1999, so it is obviously a problem in the gtar compress detection 
code. 

Jörg

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