<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" dir="ltr" text="#000000"> Yuandan Zhang wrote: <blockquote cite="mid42A7C770.20404@turing.une.edu.au" type="cite" dir="ltr">Hi, I have a tar file, when I try list its contents, I get following error. How to fix it? tar tvf GM.tar -rw------- user/gp 689 2004-03-25 16:43:34 CHR101/chrom101.map tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors </blockquote> try using cpio: <pre>cpio -tvd -H tar < your-tar-file</pre> </body> </html>