Inspecting Content of Add-on BIN File

super-poussin wrote:
a simple tar xvf addons.bin should work except for jedi's add-ons

tar xvf addons.bin shouldn't work because of the index text concatenated at the start of the tar archive.

I followed the thread referenced by Dave and came up with the following command which is essentially what I was doing manually; unfortunately with the same result.

tail -c `head -n 1 EnableRootSSH_1.0-x86.bin | awk -Fsize= '{print $2}' | cut -d, -f1` EnableRootSSH_1.0-x86.bin | tar -xv 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I've tried to untar the extracted archive under Linux (Fedora), cygwin(Windows), and on the ReadyNAS box itself. All with the same result.

Can someone who has used the SDK to successfully build an addon try reversing the process perhaps?

THANKS
Peter