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Re: Tar error


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Tar error
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:45:16 -0700 (PDT)

> From: "Thompson, Leslie A. (Les)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:20:15 -0500
> 
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: only read 2255 bytes from archive <file_name>
> tar: Error is not recoverable: Exiting now
> 
> Is there anything I can do with this file?

The file is corrupted somehow.

If we're only talking about 2255 bytes, the simplest thing to do might
be to examine the file directly, and grab the bytes that you want.



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