Michael D. Hensley writes:
> and Mark Bixby replied:
> > That error means that the file PERL.PUB.PERL was somehow truncated.
>
> ...which reminded me of where I had seen that before.  There is some kind of
> problem on MPE/iX 5.0 affecting tar, lzw, AND mover, that we never resolved.
> It results in (drum roll) TRUNCATED FILES extracted from *any* of these
> archive types.  If you're still on 5.0, I think you are out of luck (we never
> got it to work right -- that's why the IPROF 97 tape [last year] contained
> most of the files unpacked.)

It also happens on 5.5.  I've seen this same problem when un-tarring files
on top of files that already exist.  Purge the existing files first before you
un-tar.
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