On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Greg Evans wrote:

> Just wondering why when I am trying to untar .tar files lately I am 
> getting errors like:
> 
> tar: only read xxxx bytes from archive filename.tar
> 
> This just started today and is particularly annoying as I am hoping to 
> install something but the archive will not untar completely.

Is this only on one particular archive, or does it affect archives
that have worked before? If it's only a particular archive, or perhaps
archives from a single source, you may be able to finesse it with the
`-i' option to tar. Also try `pax -r -x tar ...'.