I was getting this error just today, actually. I was imaging a disk and on the destination workstation, the current directory was ~, I was tarring/zipping & netcatting a partition over, mounted identically, but forgot to tell tar not to strip the leading /. As a result, I was filling the ramdisk in KNOPPIX, causing this error. This probably won't provide any lead, but check your free disk space on that partition. John On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:18:57 -0500, Josh Close <narshe at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to untar a file and I get this error > > # tar -xf file.tar > > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > Then it just sits there. Is there a way to fix that? Or is this file > lost for good? > > -Josh > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- John T. Hoffoss _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list