Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > I was using tar 1.19 and trying to extract a .tar.bz2 which was > defective. So I had to manually use bzip2recover ending up with several > thousands of .bz2 files of which most could be decompressed. Now > concatenating all the files (correct order!) lead to a ``recovered.tar'' > archive. However when trying to extract the archive tar fails as soon as > the first defective header is found.
How exactly does it fail? Normally it displays the `Skipping to next header' diagnostics and attempts to read the next header. Did it abort immediately? > PS: I tried to file this as a bug report but gnu tar does not accept > bug reports (bug or feature?). How did you do that? Regards, Sergey
