On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 at 8:56pm, David Trusty wrote

> Thanks for responding.  My tar version is 1.13.

Bad.  Bad bad bad.

> /usr/local/bin/gunzip -c 20020421_0.gz | more
> 07460550617/./
*snip*

Yep -- that's it.  Your index files are corrupt (as evidenced by those big 
numbers at the beginning of each entry) due to a bad version of tar.  You 
need at least 1.13.19, which is available at alpha.gnu.org.

This comes up all the time (see the mailing list archives), so I'm finally
adding a FAQ-O-Matic entry on it...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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