On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:45:18AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So I'm puzzled as to whether I'm still doing something wrong, or this 
> new tar doesn't recognize the '-f... -' for the stdin from a pipe 
> option.

That "..." is a placeholder for "x or t, with whatever other
options you want, e.g. v"; you're not meant to type it literally.

> /bin/gtar: ./.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/cdrom.desktop: time stamp 
> 2020-04-27 15:36:21 is 482063157 s in the future

Do the original files have the same bad timestamps?  That'll
determine whether this is really a bug or version incompatibility
in tar, or just a case of shooting the messenger...

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