[mdlug] TAR probloms

[David Relson]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:40:55 -0800 (PST)
jack freeman wrote:

> Im having a problom untaring a file this is what happens
> 
> :/var/www# tar -xf webback_1_10_06.tar
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> is there anyway i can get around this?
> 
> Debian
> 
> Jack

Might it be zipped with either gzip or bzip2?  What does the file command say about the
tar file?

If it's a tar file that's not compressed, some editors (for example
emacs) can still read it and can be used to extract individual files.