Urgent....

milindpk · 08-31-2010, 02:32 AM

Here I am trying to untar a file taken from true 64 bit Unix server to RHEL 5 server and I am getting a following error -

Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

What can be done to extract the contains of those tar file.

Regards.

Milind

EricTRA · 08-31-2010, 02:56 AM

Hello,

Please use more descriptive titles for your questions/problems. Urgent doesn't tell us nothing and since we're all volunteers it's only urgent to you. For what concerns your problem have a look at this thread, it's in the LQ Success stories so I'm sure the solution is in there

Kind regards,

Eric

jschiwal · 08-31-2010, 02:58 AM

Please edit your titles post to include what your problem is. A person familiar with your problem will probably miss it because it contains no information about tar versions. The title "Urgent..." is not helpful and somewhat rude.
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What version of tar are you using. What version of tar is used on the Tru 64 server? Does the tru64 server user GNU tar?
Does this look like the warning you saw?

Code:

      /* Parse base-64 output produced only by tar test versions
         1.13.6 (1999-08-11) through 1.13.11 (1999-08-23).
         Support for this will be withdrawn in future releases.  */
      int dig;
      if (!silent)
        {
          static bool warned_once;
          if (! warned_once)
            {
              warned_once = true;
              WARN ((0, 0, _("Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers")));
            }
        }

The comments imply that this version will handle this archive, but future versions won't. It is a warning for now on my version.
My version of tar is "tar (GNU tar) 1.23"