From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>

Charlie> On download of the tarballs from ftp, and on extraction of 
Charlie> them to the partitions. Sometimes pax will come up with `invalid
Charlie> header - searching .. ' or somesuch.. 

This seems to me not for writing files but reading tarballs.
Are your tarballs also in SCSI hard disk ?
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Makoto Fujiwara
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