Very often, perhaps 40% of the time, when I untar something with a command
of the following nature, gzip and tar complain. e.g.:

%tar --unlink -zxvf /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz
[many filenames go by]
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
tar: child returned status 1

The archive seems to unpack okay, it's just that tar/gzip decide to whine. 
Ordinarily this isn't a problem, but when I was trying to install some
packages under 1.3 using pkg_add many months ago, it would fail when it
caught the return value. Is there so known problem with tar? I'm using 1.3.1
on a macIIci. 

Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>