Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 11:43:22 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Bug in tar112a?
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I got the following errors while trying to extract files.

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$ tar zxvf /djgpp/zips/sh-utils-2.0i.tar.gz
...
...
...
sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrdup.c
sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtod.c
sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtol.c
sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtoul.c
sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtoumax.c
tar: Unexpected end of file in archive
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Processed all files possible, despite earlier errors

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The same thing happens with archives that have many files:

sh-utils-2.0[ghi].tar.gz. binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz, gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz

The only one it extracted for me was indent-2.2.5.tar.gz. From what I
could see, I think `tar' fails after a extracting a certain number of
files. `indent' did not have many files, so it worked alright.

The same archives work fine with djtar, however. Is there something I'm
missing or is this a real bug? Someone please clarify.

Prashant