Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:17:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel AT gmx DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in tar?
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On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> So i downloaded "tar112s.zip" to build it myself, but now with the new build
> of tar, all works fine and it don't crashes any longer.
> 
> Can someone reproduce this or is it just a broken download from
> "tar112b.zip"?

Not broken, just old.  The bug you mention was in the first upload of
the Tar port.  When this bug was found, I uploaded new tar112[sb].zip
to SimTel.NET.  It seems like you had an old binary, but by the time
you downloaded the source distribution, the sources were already
fixed.

I still suggest to get the new binary from SimTel, since it was linked
with patched libc.  I am told that linking with stock v2.01 library
will get you a buggy program.  Specifically, the operations with
compressed archives could fail without some of the patches in the
library.  The correct binary is 167936 bytes in size and is dated
Nov 19, 1997.