> Did you try to read this tar-file with some other tar program?  ...
>... such as GNU tar 1.12?

Same result.

>> Looks like gcc 2.8.1.

>Gee.  That's dead broken.  ...

Yeah, yeah.  But you're just a wee bit biased :-) :-).

>First thing I'd do would be to get GNU tar
>1.13.19 built with a newer compiler.  ...

So what's the recommended **stable** gcc these days?  I'll try to scrounge
up the 100+ MBytes and CPU hours it takes to build and give that a try.

>Alexandre Oliva

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