I expect that it does not matter, but I noticed that the man page for Archive::Tar does say that to use "the full (unix) path (including file name)" as the second arg to the "extract_file" method. I suppose it might be surprising if this really made a difference, but you should be aware that in perl generally, you can use the unix-style forward-slash instead of dos-style back-slashes in path specs.

Anyway, I think the first reply is more likely to have nailed it. When you do "tar tf whatever.tar" on the solaris box, do you see one or more directory names and slashes in front of "toc"?

I don't know why this would trigger a "checksum error"; I assume that winzip succeeded on the exact same file where your perl script failed (and that "success" means the "toc" file looked fine after being extracted), so that would rule out a file corruption problem.

Looking at the module's source code, I do see the obligatory "binmode" applied to the input file handle, so it's not a dos text-mode-io problem either; also, I see that the checksum error involves trying to validate a particular file, but the commentary that surrounds this part of the code seems odd. If I were to run into this problem (and if I felt I had the time), I'd step through with "perl -d", to see where it's getting the reference checksum, and why that isn't matching the data.

In reply to Re: help with Archive::tar by graff
in thread help with Archive::tar by paulehr

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