Problems with a munged tar tape

[SKY]

|(assuming [bk]sh syntax).  The next trick will be to convince tar to
|read the munged file.  I don't have any good solution to that one.
|If all else fails, dump the raw tar file onto a disk then edit out
|the tar headers.

That is the easier part. You just have snip off stuff to skip to a
valid file header, at a 256 byte boundary.  I had to do this once.  You
will lose the first one or few files, of course.

	Ken