Readers, A tar ball was received, created in m$ environment using 7zip. Using gnu/linux mandriva (m$ not available) The normal tar extract command was applied:
tar -xf ... which was unsuccessful, returning command terminal response: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Using the tool 'file', the tar files are classified as 'data', of mime-type 'application/octet-stream', which I presume means that the the tar ball was formatted in error to some binary format. Any advice to obtain the files in the tar ball?
