Use gnu-tar..  (often   'gtar'    on many systems)

sun's tar can't handle the filenames..

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Cheng Yan wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I am having trouble in untar tomcat binary file.
> 
> I downloaded both jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2-LE-jdk14.tar.gz and 
> jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2.tar.gz. However, when I tried to untar them,
> I got following error message:
> 
> tar: directory checksum error
> 
> What is the problem?
> 
> BTW, I am using an ultra-sparc I box running solaris 2.7.
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> Cheng Yan
> 
> 
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