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

[Ruth Griswold]

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?

Thank you for pointing this out.  I am using cygwin on a windows XP professional version 2002 service pack 2. I recently downloaded an updated version of cygwin, which includes version 1.17 of gnu tar. 

I was trying to unarchive the file on my own mac computer, however, and I realized that my own computer has an outdated version of tar. When I tried to unarchive the Demo files on the windows server computer itself, it worked.

This did not help with my problem of the Chinese files not being copied, though.

When I copy the files through network connections on my mac computer, the names show up with Chinese characters: 问卷回答.doc

On my PC, they show up as boxes instead of characters.

For the files in folder "test", named: 

G.doc

☐☐☐☐.doc

☐☐☐☐

☐☐☐☐0000.doc

☐☐☐☐0001.doc

I got the following output when running tar (on the windows server computer with ver 1.17):

bash-3.2$ /bin/tar -c -v -f - 'test' > test.tar

test/

test/G.doc

/bin/tar: test/????.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

/bin/tar: test/????.shs: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

/bin/tar: test/????0000.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

/bin/tar: test/????0001.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The backup script that normally creates all these files uses gzip after the file is tar archived, then pipes this into an ssh connection to a Mac server computer running MacOSX 10.4.9, and it gives the same error as above.

Thank you for your help, any suggestions on this would be appreciated.

Ruth

 

Ruth Griswold                 

ruth@learn.motion.com                                           

Learning in Motion, Inc.               

On Jun 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

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