> Sorry, I'm a Windows guy by default... how does one apply a patch?

There is a utility called "patch", the sibling of "diff" (in Windows, you
can get it as part of CygWin). For a quick and dirty hack, you could just
lowercase the 4th 'A' in line 102 of BackupPC_tarExtract. I _think_ that's
all that the patch below changes.

> > same client PC, but none others.

> Please try the following patch to BackupPC_tarExtract.

> Craig

> --- BackupPC_tarExtract 2005-12-11 15:52:59.000000000 -0800
> +++ BackupPC_tarExtract.new     2006-01-12 11:57:58.859704000 -0800
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
>  #                 Copyright 1998 Stephen Zander. All rights reserved.
>  #
>  my $tar_unpack_header
> -    = 'Z100 A8 A8 A8 A12 A12 A8 A1 Z100 A6 A2 Z32 Z32 A8 A8 A155 x12';
> +    = 'Z100 A8 A8 A8 a12 A12 A8 A1 Z100 A6 A2 Z32 Z32 A8 A8 A155 x12';
>  my $tar_header_length = 512;
>
>  my $BufSize  = 1048576;     # 1MB or 2^20



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