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- From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
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- Subject: Re: Help! Can I recover screwed up tar archive?
- Message-ID: <GREENDOG.93Jan9162347@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 21:23:49 GMT
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- Sender: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
- Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.
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- In-Reply-To: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com's message of 9 Jan 93 03:29:35 GMT
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- | I need to extract information, if possible, from a tape which tar reads as
- | having a 'directory checksum error'. Is there a way to trick tar into reading
- | a tape screwed up in this particular way?
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- Like Dave said, it's probably byte swapped. If not, try getting the
- following from ftp.uu.net:
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- > usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume7/tar_aids.Z
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- There are two programs, one which will go through a corrupted tar file
- looking for valid file headers (listing them) and other which will
- extract them.
-
- Mike
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