grant@torque.net
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:27:46 -0400 (EDT)
> > pt0: HP COLORADO 8GBe, master, blocksize 512, 4007 MB
> > tar: Hmm, this doesnt look like a tar archive
> > tar: Skipping to next file header
> > tar: Skipping to next file header
> > tar: Skipping to next file header
> The reason for the infinite number of "Skipping to next file header"
> messages is probably the unimplemented mt operations again: "skip to
> next filemark" is one of those mt operations. This won't be an issue
> if you use the right flags on tar.
Actually, it has nothing to do with the missing mtops, tar is simply
reading through the file looking for magic numbers, hoping it might
get back in sync with the archive. But, since the data is effectively
random, it never does ...
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