>? gtar: time_t value 18446744071597657311 too large (max=68719476735)
>...
>Last night I got this error but I' am not sure what does it mean?
It means you have several files out there with "negative" times in them.
For instance, 18446744071597657311 translates to 0xffffffff,0x821f0cdf.
That, in turn, means someone set a file time to either Jan 29, 1903,
or about Feb 16, 2039 (if I did the math right).
GNU tar apparently did not translate these values properly, which may,
in turn, mean your OS didn't. It has room in the tar header field for
them when considered as unsigned. So I suspect you're going to have to
talk to the GNU tar folk about this. Be sure to tell them what version
you're using and what OS.
In the meantime, about the only thing I can suggest is that you find
the files with the bogus values and change them (e.g. with "touch").
I'm not sure exactly how to find them, but you might try a GNU tar run
to /dev/null with --verbose and hope that the file name comes out with
the error message. If that doesn't work, try it to a pipe to cat to
/dev/null (GNU tar looks for output going to /dev/null and shortstops
some processing).
>Sandra
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
