Hello fellow monks, long time listener first time caller. I am having a problem with Archive::Tar on a windows XP machine. I am using Activestate perl 5.8.8 and Archive::Tar 1.23. What i am trying to accomplish is extract one file from a each tarball that is in a directory. This is what I have so far 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Archive::Tar;

my $wdir = "U:\\EMM loads"; 
my $tarballs; 
my $toc = "toc"; 


opendir(PWD, $wdir) or die "can't open $wdir: $!";
while (defined($tarballs = readdir(PWD))) {    
    if ($tarballs =~ /\.tar$/) {    
        my $tar = Archive::Tar->new("$wdir\\$tarballs");
        $tar->extract_file($toc,$wdir);
        }
}
closedir(PWD);

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The Problem i am having is that when it tries to read the tarball it bombs with a checksum error. I have tried this with several tarballs and they all do the same thing. I can open these fine using winzip and on a solaris machine fine. Has anyone run into this before? or am I missing something? Thanks for the help!

In reply to help with Archive::tar by paulehr

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