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Re: [Bug-tar] misidentified tar.bz2 file
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] misidentified tar.bz2 file |
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Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:11:35 +0100 |
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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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