On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Gary Duzan wrote:

> 
>    I can get the following error reliably:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> wheel { ~gary/restored } # tar cvf - users/gary/News | bzip2 -v | bunzip2 -tvv
>   (stdin):   (stdin): users/gary/News/

[snip]

What about removing the "-v" from the bzip2?  My first guess is that the
verbose output is being shoved into the data stream, and is corrupting the
output.

i.e. try "tar cvf - users/gary/News | bzip2 | bunzip2 -tvv"

-Jon Lindgren
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