On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:35:30PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >  Hi, 
> > 
> >  I had problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs available at download section.
> > Each .tar.gz is padded with zeros to the length that has a factor of 256.
> > This leads to tar reporting error when unpacking it, and also leads to
> > inability to open that .tar.gz with Midnight Commander (and thus gmc and very
> > likely Konqerror and kfm).
> > 
> >  Just curious, what software created them.
> 
> This was created like so:
> 
> tar cz abi/ > abi.tar.gz
> 
> and so on.  I can recreate them in a bit.

 Just checked your way - it really produces files with zeros appended.
 Please repack them using
         tar czf abi.tar.gz abi 
 - they won't have junk at the end (and the size will be different).
 I think a bug against tar should be filed...

> Thanks
>                               sam th
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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