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Heh! We take every chance to blame that we can :)

So I looked into it -- the file is strange. It does read fine in *nix land though (I have FreeBSD on a virtual machine). You may be interested in the list of files:

$ tar tvf DBD-Pg-2.10.0-Perl5.8.tar 
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown     0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/.exists
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown     0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg
+/.exists
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown     0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg
+/Pg.bs
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown 233472 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g/Pg.dll
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown    380 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g/Pg.dll.manifest
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown    743 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g/Pg.exp
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown   1854 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g/Pg.lib
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown 568320 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g/Pg.pdb
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD/P
+g
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto/DBD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch/auto
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/arch
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/bin/.exists
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/bin
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown   2040 Aug 27 10:46 blib/html/site/lib/B
+undle/DBD/Pg.html
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:46 blib/html/site/lib/B
+undle/DBD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/html/site/lib/B
+undle
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown 225260 Aug 27 10:46 blib/html/site/lib/D
+BD/Pg.html
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:46 blib/html/site/lib/D
+BD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:46 blib/html/site/lib
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/html/site
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/html
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/auto/DBD/Pg
+/.exists
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/auto/DBD/Pg
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/auto/DBD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/auto
-r--r--r--  0 unknown unknown    545 Aug 20 11:41 blib/lib/Bundle/DBD/
+Pg.pm
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/Bundle/DBD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/Bundle
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/DBD/.exists
-r--r--r--  0 unknown unknown 160452 Aug 22 14:25 blib/lib/DBD/Pg.pm
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib/DBD
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/lib
-rw-rw-rw-  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/script/.exists
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib/script
drwxrwxrwx  0 unknown unknown      0 Aug 27 10:45 blib
[download]

Back in Windows, when I try to open DBD-Pg-2.10.0-Perl5.8.tar.gz with PowerArchiver, it does detect the duplicate files, but the entire archive has been flattened (i.e., directories are empty & plain files appear as duplicates in the same dir). This is the same thing you're seeing.

You mentioned using an old version of WinZip. Perhaps IZArc could help?

In reply to Re^7: [OT] Tar file with non-identical duplicate files and no paths?(A solution) by repellent
in thread [OT] Tar file with non-identical duplicate files and no paths? by BrowserUk

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