Hi, I'm starting to think this is a Mac OS X Snow Leopard specific issue. The GNU docs on the tar format say the type flag 'x' means this:
#define XHDTYPE 'x' /* Extended header referring to the next file in the archive */ Maybe, OSX is putting some bad juju in my files causing them to have these extended headers?? Aaarg! -chris ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.