Re: [Bug-tar] Re: GNU tar Feature Question

[Joerg Schilling]

"Aaron M. Renn" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello.  I recovered my video card and ran a test on a corrupted backup
> that I have laying around.  tar 1.15.1 dies the minute it hits bad data,
> the same as all previous verions.  Here's the message:
>
> -rw------- arenn/users 4613506 2002-09-17 23:17:54 arenn/Mail/sent
> -rw------- arenn/users 2930421 2002-07-20 20:24:34 arenn/Mail/classpath
> -rw------- arenn/users   15953 1999-03-23 22:20:34 arenn/Mail/ssowder_utils
> -rw------- arenn/users 2306213 2002-05-11 11:35:57 arenn/Mail/breakdown
> /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Skipping to next header
> /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 
> headers
> /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> address@hidden tmp]$

It would be of interest to see what star

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

says on this archive.....

What you show is a typical message from GNU tar for POSIX compliant 
tar archives since around 1990 and it is unclear whether the related
bu has already been fixed.

Jörg

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