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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: TAR
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Date: 2 Nov 90 04:13:56 GMT
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
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In article <6187@m2c.M2C.ORG> hautala@odin.m2c.org () writes:
> 
> 
> I am trying to extract a tar file, and it seems no matter what I do, I get
> this error "checksum error in directory file, possible name:" and then a
> bunch of garbage!!!
> 
> what gives???  what is the correct command to extract all the files from a
> tar file in my directory????

It is quite possible the tar tape was created with an non-default blocksize.
Try something like tar xb 40 and see if that helps.  You can also use dd to
determine the blocksize by doing "dd if=/dev/rmt?? of=diskfile bs=127b count=1"
and then ls -l to check the size of the file...

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