Help is needed (a bit off topic, I admit) ...
On a linux server, I try to unpack a tar archive, but I receive
these error messages:
../www/
tar: ../www/: Member name contains `..'
../www/html/
tar: ../www/html/: Member name contains `..'
... and so on; obviously tar does not like those double dots.
When I look into that tar archive, then I see that it starts from
../www
(followed by lots of funny symbols, many of them being ^@).
And the other paths
../www/html/
can be found as well.
When I replace these double dots ".." by some other two chracters
say "yY" or "/y", tar would answer:
"Does not seem to be a tar archive"
-- -- I tried to exchange some path information in some other archive,
I replaced "etc" by "ETC" and adain I received the error message
"Does not seem to be a tar archive"
When I go back from "ETC" to "etc", then tar unpacks fine.
Does tar have proof digits?
Does someone have an idea how how I can extract that archive?
TIA,
Detlef
