On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:35:53AM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> >
> >>Try to do a table of contents
> >>  gtar tvf < unzippedfile
> >
> >Worked fine.
> >
> >>If that works, try the extraction you need with gtar.
> >
> >Darn.  Here come the errors again:
> >
> >amanda:/u10# tar -x -f sharedata.unzipped ./Subcontracts/*
> >tar: Skipping to next header
> >tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> I should have thought that your `gtar tvf' above caught these same 
> errors.  Are `tar' and `gtar' different versions by any chance?  Could 
> you try your extraction with gtar?

Sorry Alex,  That was neglect on my part.  I used tar for both of
those.  I am not aware of, or at least cannot find a package called
gtar, either on my server, or out on Freshmeat.  I assumed, perhaps
wrongly, that Jon was referring to the gnutar package there.  Jon, am
I mistaken?

Thanks,
Bryan