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I had some strange tar problems with bsd tar, which is included with 
5.3-RELEASE. I would recommend installing gtar and using that instead. 
By the way, if you install gtar, you just type "tar" as you normally would.

freebsd_daemon wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I got a tar archive (varia.tar), when I try to un-tar it I get:
> 
> # tar xvf ./varia.tar
> ../varia/
> tar: ../varia/: Member name contains `..'
> ../varia/bkup200401.gz
> tar: ../varia/bkup200401.gz: Member name contains `..'
> 
> [...]
> 
> ../varia/bkup200411.gz
> tar: ../varia/bkup200411.gz: Member name contains `..'
> tar: Error exit delay from previous error
> 
> Is there a way to un-tar that archive despite of that?
> 
> TIA
> 
> zheyu
>