"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I recovered my video card and ran a test on a corrupted backup > that I have laying around. tar 1.15.1 dies the minute it hits bad data, > the same as all previous verions. Here's the message: > > -rw------- arenn/users 4613506 2002-09-17 23:17:54 arenn/Mail/sent > -rw------- arenn/users 2930421 2002-07-20 20:24:34 arenn/Mail/classpath > -rw------- arenn/users 15953 1999-03-23 22:20:34 arenn/Mail/ssowder_utils > -rw------- arenn/users 2306213 2002-05-11 11:35:57 arenn/Mail/breakdown > /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Skipping to next header > /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 > headers > /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$
It would be of interest to see what star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/aplha/ says on this archive..... What you show is a typical message from GNU tar for POSIX compliant tar archives since around 1990 and it is unclear whether the related bu has already been fixed. J�rg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
