none wrote in message news:...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Mandrake 10 and installed tar-1.14 from cooker. I tried
> backing up a pc data card and though the size of the tar file says about
> 168M, I can only extract about 32M from the tar file. With tar-1.14, I
> get the following error where it stops:
>
> tar: .: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00
>
> I've tried using tar-1.13, tar-1.12, tar from solaris, cpio, and Winzip
> just for kicks but I can't seem to find any tools to see past that 32M
> point. Stupid me for not testing the tar archive before trashing the pc
> card.
>
> Does anyone know of any utility that I might be able to use to extract the
> entire tar file?

Can't say I've come across that problem. First things I'd try would be
passing a few different flags to tar. You could, for example, try the
-K flag to specify s start point. Another flag, -m, says "don't
extract file modified time", perhaps that would work round it? Type
"man tar" to see all the available options for tar.

Mattias Honrendgard wrote:

> none wrote in message news:...
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm running Mandrake 10 and installed tar-1.14 from cooker. I tried
>>backing up a pc data card and though the size of the tar file says about
>>168M, I can only extract about 32M from the tar file. With tar-1.14, I
>>get the following error where it stops:
>>
>>tar: .: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00
>>
>>I've tried using tar-1.13, tar-1.12, tar from solaris, cpio, and Winzip
>>just for kicks but I can't seem to find any tools to see past that 32M
>>point. Stupid me for not testing the tar archive before trashing the pc
>>card.
>>
>>Does anyone know of any utility that I might be able to use to extract the
>>entire tar file?
>
>
> Can't say I've come across that problem. First things I'd try would be
> passing a few different flags to tar. You could, for example, try the
> -K flag to specify s start point. Another flag, -m, says "don't
> extract file modified time", perhaps that would work round it? Type
> "man tar" to see all the available options for tar.

That date is actually Midnight Jan 1 1970 GMT.
(Assuming you're in the US mountain time zone.???)

Looks the the file has zero for one of the dates
associated with it.



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