On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 
> I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of
> gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a
> more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace
> as suggested if I have any issues with it.

Whoops.

> A test of amdump and amrestore brought a tar ball back from tape, and
> expecting that the paths files where all prefixed with long numeric
> ids, I don't yet know why... is there something I need to know here ?

I think you just ran into the reason why plain vanilla 1.13 is
specifically NOT recommended.  Look for 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 in
the 1.13 series.  If you have a compilation environment, they are
an easy compile.  I can send the source if you can't locate it.

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