Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball

[TuxGirl]

> > I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running
> > Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd.  I'm
> > now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over
> > some sort of filesystem limit or something.  None of the commands that
> > I have tried seem to like the file.  Each of them gives the same
>
> [snip]
>
> > I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on
> > my server last week, when i opened it up there...
>
> Might want try a different implementation of tar then....
> cd /usr/ports/archivers; make search name="tar"| more

I will try this, however, when I mentioned that other commands were
also not playing nicely with the file, I was referring to commands
such as cp, mv, and ls.  I'll see if another tar command will work,
though.  thanks for the reply!
~Erin