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From: alk@neuro.med.umn.edu (Anthony L Kimball)
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Subject: Recovering corrupted tar's
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Date: 4 Oct 90 01:37:52 GMT
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So, anyone have a handy-dandy tool to patch a tar archive which
has had it's leading N blocks overwritten?  I do so hate to do this
by hand.

--alk