On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 7:20pm, Andy Zhang wrote > So, basically, a file looked like '74550524305 7550414032 /./scripts/driver' > Each file has this preceeding directory. It's hard, if not impossible to > access these directories to retrieve the files that I > wanted. I tried not to '| tar xvf -', instead '> tarfile', and it still > showed the same results by viewing the tarfile through 'tar -tvf'. *snip*
> - both are using Gnu-tar, downloaded the source, and compiled on the > server/client. Sounds like a bad version of tar -- 1.13. You need to get at least 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 from alpha.gnu.org and use one of those. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University