Help recovering damaged .tar file

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From: veenu.r.rashid
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:38

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Is there any way to do this?  My .tar.Z file comes up with an
error halfway through:

Directory checksum:  1089 != 27893

or something like this (made up the numbers).  Can I uncompress
the tar file and fix it somehow?  (I just want to skip the bad
block or the bad file and read the rest of the files).

This came up while reading from a bad floppy... the file copies
but the data is corrupted.  Is there a way to fix the floppy?
I tried running:

root% fsck /dev/fd0a


but this didn't seem to do anything.


Please email me with tips, suggestions or a step by step method


Thanks,
Veenu

vrr@cbnewsj.att.com

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