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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (SKY)
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Subject: Re: Problems with a munged tar tape
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 04:15:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 04:15:43 1987
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|(assuming [bk]sh syntax).  The next trick will be to convince tar to
|read the munged file.  I don't have any good solution to that one.
|If all else fails, dump the raw tar file onto a disk then edit out
|the tar headers.

That is the easier part. You just have snip off stuff to skip to a
valid file header, at a 256 byte boundary.  I had to do this once.  You
will lose the first one or few files, of course.

	Ken