On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:18:57AM -0500, Josh Close wrote: > I'm trying to untar a file and I get this error > > # tar -xf file.tar > > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > > Then it just sits there. Is there a way to fix that? Or is this file > lost for good? Well, for a first thing try: # tar -xvf file.tar and see if you get anymore useful info on what's going on. If that doesn't work try a non-gnu tar. Either on a Unix box if you have access, or download a different free tar - I beleive that there are at least a couple. I think that there is one called star from the maker of cdrecord. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list