Re: [Bug-tar] Warning message when reading partial blocks from stdin.

[Paul Eggert]

Laurence Bond <address@hidden> writes:

>>>gzip -d -c a_tar_file.tar.gz | tar tvf - > /dev/null
>>>gtar: Read 9216 bytes from -
>> I can't reproduce this behavior with GNU tar 1.15.1 on my host
>> (Debian GNU/Linux 3.0).  Perhaps you can say which tar file
>> you are getting the behavior with?
>>
> I get it one several different compressed tar files created
> on Solaris 9. They range in size from about 14MB to over 80MB.
>
> I was testing the tar command on AIX 5.2.

Are any of these tar files available for public inspection?  Failng
that, can you give a recipe for creating such a file on Solaris 9?