During taring files on HP UX machine from my java program a tar file is getting created of size 10240 bytes size and doesn't contain the files I try to tar. Actaully the size of Files I try to tar are around 2MB and I am trying to tar around 100 files. If I try to tar files of size few bytes the tar file is created and the list of files are shown with -tvf option but if I try to extract the file with OS Command tar -xvf a broken pipe error apears. Please log your solution ASAP. Thanking You in Advance.