Tar oddity...

[Roberto Ragusa]

DB wrote:
> The reason I went with  tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents of
> the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors.  I guess
> that actually trying to extract the files when the table of contents
> fails would not be any more successful?

Run

  md5sum F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz

on both machines.
If you get two different results, something bad is happening.

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