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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Can't extract - get "Archive contains obsolescent bas
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Can't extract - get "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers" |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:33:44 +0100 |
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nail 11.2 8/15/04 |
Alexis Huxley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > That "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers" message that you
> > got was bogus, though. I installed the following patch. Thanks
> > for reporting the problem.
>
> No problem, but going back to my unrestorable DAT ... :-)
>
> ... I used 'split -b 1024' and hexdump to try to examine the tar file. The
> first 1024 bytes are:
>
> 00000000 2e 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |./..............|
> 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> *
> 00000060 00 00 00 00 30 30 34 30 37 30 30 00 30 30 30 31 |....0040700.0001|
> 00000070 37 35 30 00 30 30 30 31 37 35 30 00 30 30 30 30 |750.0001750.0000|
> 00000080 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00 30 37 37 31 33 35 33 34 |0000000.07713534|
> 00000090 33 33 37 00 30 31 30 35 35 35 00 20 35 00 00 00 |337.010555. 5...|
> 000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
Why don't you just run "tartest" or star on the archive?
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
"tartest" lists deviations from the POSIX.1-1988 standard and star may give
some other hints.
Jörg
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