Running

   emacs -Q File-Corresponding-0.003.tar.gz

on that file from

   http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JO/JOHANL/File-Corresponding-0.003.tar.gz

(about 14 kbytes) produces a buffer like

   drwxrwxrwx       0/0             0 File-Corresponding-0.003
   -r--r--r--       0/0          1274 Build.PL
   -r--r--r--       0/0           382 Changes
   -r--r--r--       0/0          1272 Makefile.PL
   ...

where I hoped it would show the directory part of each name, the same as
shown by "tar tvf" (GNU tar 1.20),

   File-Corresponding-0.003
   File-Corresponding-0.003/Build.PL
   File-Corresponding-0.003/Changes
   File-Corresponding-0.003/Makefile.PL
   ...

Such a file is generated by the perl Archive::Tar module.  It uses the
posix style magic "ustar\0", with digits "00" in the `version' field.
But I think tar-header-block-tokenize only recognises a nul "\000" in
that version field (in addition to ``OLDGNU'' style which is a space).

I get some joy from the change below.  Are those two places the only
ones wanting to match the extra form?

2009-01-10  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

	* tar-mode.el (tar-header-block-tokenize): Recognise posix
	"ustar\0\060" magic for long filenames.





In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2009-01-07 on blah.blah
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-O -g' '--prefix=/down/emacs/b/inst' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t