On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote

> So after going through some index files and cleaning them and
> verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might
> have gone wrong using this gnutar version.

ISTR that the backups themselves are actually fine.

> Does someone knows which sub-version of gnutar 1.13 are affected with
> this bug?

.17, .19, and .25 have all been reported to work.  I think .25 is the only 
one available on alpha.gnu.org (don't know about freeware.sgi.com).

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University