Frank Smith wrote:

--On Monday, March 01, 2004 16:11:47 -0500 Allen Liu --- work <allen AT bellglobal 
DOT com> wrote:

spike:root:#more 20040301_0
10020721223/./cfgadm
10020721223/./chroot

BAD version of tar, make sure you are using at least 1.13.19.
However, one person on the list had success by manually editing out
the leading numbers from the paths and then running amrecover.

tar 1.13.19 or better yet 1.13.25
from : ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz
( but NOT 1.13.90 or later, yet).

This works to fix the index-files:

$ gunzip 2004*
$ perl -pi.bak -e 's!^\d+/\.!!' 2004*
$ gzip 2004*[0-9]

(remove the .bak files afterwards if it's fixed)


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