Ken Yap wrote:
> >Does anyone know what this error message from a tar archive
> >means? There is nothing in the man pages for tar on this.
> >tar xvf rsnsw.tar
> > tar: Archive value 2872975643983 is out of time_t range
> >-2147483648..2147483647
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> My guess is that the tar format has been extended to 64-bit timestamps
> but the upper 32 bits of timestamps in the archive (possibly created by
> an older tar?) contain garbage which trigger this warning.
Um... Debian? I normally tar files at home on the Alpha
(64bit) and untar them to my Intel box here at work.
I have not had any probs before and the ONLY change is that
this is the first time that I have done this since
"upgrading" to Debian at home from RedHat. I can check the
version of tar at home on my Debian Alpha tonight. The
verson used here on the Intel is GNU tar 1.13.17
Mike
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