2008/2/28, Jeffrey Mark Siskind <<a href="mailto:qobi@purdue.edu">qobi@purdue.edu</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Using the busybox version of tar, I get:<br> <br> tar: invalid tar magic<br> <br> on a tar file that I can successfully unpack on other machines. Is this a bug<br> or a busybox restriction? How can I fix it?</blockquote>
<div><br><pre># apt-get -d install tar<br># cd /var/cache/apt/archives/<br># mkdir /tar-temp/<br># dpkg -x tar*.deb /tar-temp/<br># cd /tar-temp/bin/<br># cp tar targnu<br># ./targnu <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><whatever options you want to use><br>
<br>Salut,<br>Sebas.<br></span></pre> </div><br></div><br>