beser@tron.UUCP (Eric Beser) (09/17/90)
I am having errors on untarring files taken off the net. The tar program reads, but then aborts with a directory checksum error. I thought it was a bad transfer, but uncompress works ok, the ftp was set on binary mode, I can cat the file, it seems like it is on a huge (3 meg and higher) file that this happens on. Because I am untarring from a file, I can't get the blocksize to change. Unless the files on the net are corrupted (?) this has happened with the file epoch.tar.Z taken from sequent.kent.edu, the epoch distribution file taken from cs.uiuc.edu. Is there a cockpit error here? Anyone else had this problem. Could someone check the integrety of the archive files on the net? Am I missing something? Eric Beser Westinghouse Aerospace Software Engineering (301)-765-1010