gnu tar with -g (listed-incremental)

[Jonathan Joseph]

I'm trying to use gnu tar with the -g option, but whenever I make a 
backup, I get these crazy 11-digit numbers that precede each resotred 
file when I do a restore from the archive.  I don't know if these are 
timestamps or inode numbers or what, but I can't seem to figure out how 
not to get them.  They show up when doing a list or a restore of the tar 
archive.

While googling, I saw one other post about this problem but no resolution.

I am running gnu tar version 1.13 under solaris 8.  I obtained the 
package pre-built from the solaris package archive at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/

Thanks for any help.

-Jonathan

Example:

> mkdir a b
> touch a/a a/b b/a b/b b/c

> gtar cvfg test.tar test.list a b
a/
b/
a/a
a/b
b/a
b/b
b/c

>rm -fR a b

> gtar xvfg test.tar test.list
10157406456/a/
10157406456/b/
10157406132/a/a
10157406132/a/b
10157406132/b/a
10157406132/b/b
10157406132/b/c