[lug] Tar Errors

[D. Stimits]

SoloCDM wrote:

> Recently I discovered some files compressed by "tar --same-owner
> -cpzvf sample.tar.gz " that wouldn't extract
> correctly with "tar -xzvf sample.tar.gz", as in the following output:
>
> tar: /html-charset/symbols/tiny_letters/?D=D: Cannot open:
> Invalid argument
>
> How can the files be extracted from the tar/gzip file?

You might want to first try a separate gunzip, and extract the tar from 
plain sample.tar without the z parameter. Does gunzip work? Does the 
error change when extracting a pure .tar file?

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com