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I've got a very nasty problem with tar 1.11.8-5 ona debian 1.2 system

If I try to unpack a multivolume archive with

tar -M -x -v -f /dev/fd0

I get a segfault and core dump.

gdb reports that the sigfault comes from libc-5.4.13

I'm wondering how to get some very important files off some floppies while
I wait for the debian people to get a fix happening. 

As I see it I have the following options:

1) try to build another copy of tar with libc-5.2.18 statically linked. I
don't know how to do this.

2) find a statically linked copy of tar that'll work. I haven't found one
yet.

3) dd the data of the disks and somehow cat the resulting files together
so that tar can unpack them. The problem only happens when I have -M and
either -x or -t. I also don't know how to do this.

Another option might be to unpack libc5-5.2.18-11.deb to so,ewhere other
than /lib and then gcc with a -L/usr/local/lib -lc5 

I don't know how to do either of these either.

Any help would be useful, as I'm quite desperate. I don't want to do
desperate experiments as root though, and I'd hate to screw my system.

John