Using GNU tar on HP11.x

[Jit-Wee LIm_1]

Hi,
I am using GNU tar to untar a tar file created on NT, but ran into permission issue as follow:

/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/local/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I am using:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Anyone seen this before? And how to fix it?

Thanks,
jw

[Jeroen Peereboom]

jw,

Did you check the GNU tar pages on portability issues?
For example: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/text/tar.txt

jp.

P.S.
probably not much help, but at least your message is on top again ;-)

[Robert Binkhorst]

Hi,

Maybe your archive is corrupt. Can you try the following:
- verify it is correct by opening it on NT.
- When you use ftp to transfer, use binary mode

HTH,

Robert

[Greg OBarr]

Did you use GNU tar to create the file on the NT system?

If so, was it the same version of GNU tar on both NT and HP-UX systems?

If so, can you untar the same file on the NT box where it was created?

If so, and you used FTP to transfer the file from NT to HP-UX system, are you certain you used BINARY mode ftp transfer?

Just a few thoughts..

-greg

[Greg OBarr]

Forgot to mention, I am using the same tar version

# /usr/local/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25

on HP-UX 11.00 with no problems (except I have run into problems related to issues mentioned in my last post)..