Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25675 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2000 20:26:01 -0000 Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (171.71.163.11) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Nov 2000 20:26:01 -0000 Received: from aqin-u10.cisco.com (aqin-u10.cisco.com [171.68.136.74]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07874 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:25:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:25:28 -0800 (PST) From: Andy XueWen Qin To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Help: untar task failed on NT Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sorry if this has been asked/answered before. I created a tar file using tar command of MKS toolkit (on WindowsNT), but I can't untar it using the Ant's untar task, the error message is: --------------------------------------- java.io.IOException: bad header in block 0 record 0, header magic is not 'ustar', but '00000', or (dec) 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 at org.apache.tools.tar.TarInputStream.getNextEntry(TarInputStream.java:253) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Untar.execute(Untar.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.runTarget(Project.java:818) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:149) -------------------------------- I checked the man page of MKStoolkit's tar command, it is a USTAR-compatible tape archiver. Thanks andy