Alfio Puglisi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Kate Turner wrote:
please let me know about any problems with these files, particularly if they don't extract correctly.
Test using http://dumps.wikimedia.org/images/wikipedia/fi/20050530_upload.tar
GNU tar on Cygwin extracts all files correctly, except for the last ones (outside any subdirectory), where I get lots of "tar: Skipping to next header" errors, and a bunch of invalid gif and png files (button_bold.gif, button_bold.png and so on).
I'm getting errors as well such as these with the english wiktionary image dump.
For example:
e/e6/Caster.png pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search. e/e7/Centranthus_ruber.jpg
And then, as the other poster mentioned:
button_math.gif pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search. button_math.png pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search. magnify-clip.png
Until it finally asks for the the 2nd volume and finishes with this:
button_italic.png pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search. pax: End of archive volume 1 reached pax: ustar vol 1, 293 files, 15218688 bytes read, 0 bytes written.
ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. Ready for archive volume: 2 Input archive name or "." to quit pax. Archive name > . Quitting pax! pax: Premature end of file on archive read
Thanks, -drmike