On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:11:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Using the busybox version of tar, I get: > > tar: invalid tar magic > > on a tar file that I can successfully unpack on other machines. Is this a bug > or a busybox restriction? Probably yes to both. Busybox tar prints that error message when it basically cannot figure out what happened. > How can I fix it? Heh, that's the rub. E -- Erik Hovland mail: erik at hovland.org web: http://hovland.org/ PGP/GPG public key available on request