Heiko Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i had problems with extracting archives on mac os x which were packed > with a different charset on a linux box. These errors resulted in > errors like this: > > tar: home/sigrid/Office51/database/Adre\337buch.url: Cannot open: (null)
Was the "\377" four different characters "\", "3", "3", "7", or does this represent a single byte in the actual tar output? That "(null)" indicates that something went seriously wrong on your host, in that errno was set to a value such that strerror (errno) returned a null pointer. Can you use a debugger to see what might have caused that? Perhaps, if we can fix the underlying problem, then we won't need the quick and dirty workaround that you mentioned. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
