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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2827: filenames listed incorrectly for tar archives
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-03-13 22:01:21
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The format of the output of the tar program changed between
1.12 and 1.13, thus breaking apps which relied on it (ark, kfm...)
There is no fix available, except downgrading to tar 1.12.
 
From KDE 1.89 onwards, kfm (now named konqueror) and ark don't
use the tar program anymore - no wonder why - for listing tars,
but do that by themselves.

David.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:49:06PM -0500, William S. Ward wrote:
> 
> Package: kfm
> Version: 1.167.2.21
> 
> In an opened .tar file, the name of each compressed file is preceded with the
> seconds portion of the time stamp of the file and a space. This prevents the 
> files from being opened. For example, if the output of the console command
> 'cat junk.tar | tar -t -v' reads
> 
> -rw-r--r-- root/root         6 2000-03-12 17:38:53 file1
> 
> then the file listing for junk1.tar under kfm reads
> 
> 53 file1    -rw-r--r--    root    root      6    2000-03-12 17:38:
> 
> The chars '53 file1' are underlined and interpreted as the filename by kfm. The
> actual filename is 'file1'. When a user clicks on the underlined and incorrect
> filename, this message appears:
> 
> Could not list directory contents
> file:/root/junk.tar#tar:/53%20file1/
> 
> This problem may be the result of the tar file parser expecting a 2 digit year
> rather than a 4 digit year in a tar archive that uses 4 digit years.

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David FAURE
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