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
