[Bug-tar] obsolescent base-64 headers

[Mike G]

Hi,

I have a few tar files I created under Fedora Core 1.  I have since
upgraded to FC2 (I wiped the hard drive clean and did a fresh install). 
All the tar files I created under FC1 won't extract under FC2.

I just installed tar-1.14-2 and am still having the same problems.

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 4223 bytes from latest_backup_save
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The tar files were compressed using bzip2 after they were created.  

Do I need to install an older version of tar to access these?

Mike