KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko <kiri(a)kiri.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
 I expand x-symbol-1.03-pkg.tar.gz and failed to complain:
 % tar vzxf /usr/ports/distfiles/xemacs/x-symbol-1.03-pkg.tar.gz
 pkginfo/MANIFEST.x-symbol 
[...]
 tar: etc/../man/x-symbol/x-symbol.init: Member name contains
`..'
 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 Is that miss-archived? 
What tar are you using, which os are you on?  I don't see this
problem.
You also might want to give version 1.04 a chance which is pre-released
(
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages)
norbert.