I have a corrupt tar file from way back:

/stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ tar -xvf KEEP.TAR 
keep/
keep/c/
keep/c/arrays.c
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Emacs can see the file all the way thru, but i can't get any of the
archivers to look past the error.  I think they all just call tar,
anyway.

Any idea how to get around this?

I think the file is corrupt, as opposed to "tar: Archive contains
obsolescent base-64 headers" since it's from ~1996 (which is not
*that* long ago :).

thanks in advance,
eric

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