[Help-tar] Re: Can't extract - get "Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers"

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Alexis,

> ... I used 'split -b 1024' and hexdump to try to examine the tar file. The
> first 1024 bytes are:

One thing just came to my mind while reading the dump you sent. There
doesn't seem to be an entry for the ./doc/ directory in your tar
archive. Isn't is suspicious? Normally, tar would automatically add any
directory prior to the files contained in this directory, when creating
the archive.

So I start wondering if the strange second entry ".#a`(" (2e 23 61 60
28 04) couldn't in fact be that missing directory, "./doc/". That
would explain this additional 512-byte block. And the string length
matches...

Or course I might as well be completely wrong, but you could try editing
the dump file and write "./doc/" at 0x200, and see what happens. IMHO
that's worth the try.

--
Jean Delvare