Following my posting last week, several people pointed me to the binary olvwm
distribution olvwmbin_GCC2.2.2.tar.Z (or something similar) which I downloaded,
and attempted to build as told by the README.linux file.  However, ld barfed
and gave me:

ld: nonexternal relocation code invalid in olvwm.a

I'm not a Unix/C programmer so could somebody please explain what's going on?

Secondly I also tried to download the binaries of Interviews doc 3.1.  I found
that tar refused to unpack the decompressed IVdoc3.1.tar file, after creating
the interviews directory tree it created a ~700k doc file and then said:

tar: Skipping to next file header...
tar: only read 10153 bytes from archive IVdoc3.1.tar

and gave up.  The same line (tar xvfh IVdoc3.1.tar) worked perfectly on the Sun
at work.  What am I doing wrong?  Or have I unwittingly discovered a bug in
tar?

Configuration:

SLS .98p5, kernel 0.99pl2 with soundcard driver compiled in.
486/33, 64k cache, 8Mb RAM, 93Mb Linux partition (Extended FS).

Thanks for any and all help.

Tim.