Hi Cristi,

> I am using the Apache Jakarta Commons Compress library to
> untar .tar files. All works fine until I try to untar a
> file with the .tar extension but whose contents is not a
> well formed TAR file.

Have you considered writing a wrapper around Compress which contains your
input stream and checks the first record in the tar using getNextEntry()
for a non-null entry, otherwise throwing an exception.

Cheers,

Raf



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