Adrian Aichner writes:
 >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Brown
<rendhalver(a)users.sourceforge.net> writes:
 
 Neither
 zcat * | tar xvf -
 nor
 zcat * | tar tvf -
 succeed.
 
 However, the files are just fine!
 
 I can extract them with no trouble either using
 WinZip 7.0 SR-1
 or even
 c:\Hacking\xemacs\xemacs-21.2\lib-src\minitar.exe
 
 You are on the Linux platform, right? 
yes
 Are you using GNU tar? 
the linux version which i assume is GNU