Re: Why does tarfs not work with all archives ?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier <lists pervalidus tk>]

Only with GNU tar. The archives were created with star. I
reported it to the appropriate mailing-list -
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/star-users/2003-May/000083.html

Thanks.

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Nehal wrote:

> it is a broken tar file, try running the following command on it:
>
>     tar -ztvf fixbash-0.1-noarch-1.tgz
>
> it will give you an error.
>
> Nehal
>
> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I forgot to attach it.