[NTLUG:Discuss] tar problem

[Robert Pearson]

Ralph Green wrote---
>  I am having a problem with tar...
>rgreen at marianne:~/logprocess> cd ../filters
>rgreen at marianne:~/filters> tar -cf /home/rgreen/test.tar *
>rgreen at marianne:~/filters> cd ../bpp
>rgreen at marianne:~/bpp> tar -Af /home/rgreen/test.tar *
>rgreen at marianne:~/bpp> cd ..
>rgreen at marianne:~> tar -tvf test.tar
>-rwx--x--x rgreen/users     80 2004-07-19 14:56:09 build_f2.sh
>...
>-rw------- rgreen/users     6252 2004-07-19 15:21:43 UserBackup
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I found this at---
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-01/msg00037.html

The Question---
I downloaded moneydance_other.tar.tar from
moneydance.com/install_unix.shtml.

When I tried to install it on my system (Xandros 2.0) I got the following
error:

Report bugs to <address at bogus.example.com>.
Picaron:/usr/local# tar xf moneydance_*.tar -C /usr/local/
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The Reply---
Please, use newer version of GNU tar. Version 1.13.25 should work OK
(available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar)

Regards,
Sergey
End Reply---

Thanks,

Robert Pearson
rdpears2001 at yahoo.com

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