diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6e5919d..cc4dba2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 language: node_js
 node_js:
+  - "0.8"
   - "0.10"
diff --git a/extract.js b/extract.js
index f6e7b51..6f3d3c6 100644
--- a/extract.js
+++ b/extract.js
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ var util = require('util');
 var bl = require('bl');
 var headers = require('./headers');
 
+var Writable = stream.Writable || require('readable-stream').Writable;
+var PassThrough = stream.PassThrough || require('readable-stream').PassThrough;
+
 var noop = function() {};
 
 var overflow = function(size) {
@@ -11,7 +14,7 @@ var overflow = function(size) {
 };
 
 var emptyStream = function() {
-	var s = new stream.PassThrough();
+	var s = new PassThrough();
 	s.end();
 	return s;
 };
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ var mixinPax = function(header, pax) {
 
 var Extract = function(opts) {
 	if (!(this instanceof Extract)) return new Extract(opts);
-	stream.Writable.call(this, opts);
+	Writable.call(this, opts);
 
 	this._buffer = bl();
 	this._missing = 0;
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ var Extract = function(opts) {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		self._stream = new stream.PassThrough();
+		self._stream = new PassThrough();
 
 		self.emit('entry', header, self._stream, onunlock);
 		self._parse(header.size, onstreamend);
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ var Extract = function(opts) {
 	this._parse(512, onheader);
 };
 
-util.inherits(Extract, stream.Writable);
+util.inherits(Extract, Writable);
 
 Extract.prototype.destroy = function(err) {
 	if (this._destroyed) return;
diff --git a/headers.js b/headers.js
index eeb2842..e4d828f 100644
--- a/headers.js
+++ b/headers.js
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ var ZEROS = '0000000000000000000';
 var ZERO_OFFSET = '0'.charCodeAt(0);
 var USTAR = 'ustar00';
 
+var clamp = function(index, len, defaultValue) {
+	if (typeof index !== 'number') return defaultValue;
+	index = ~~index;  // Coerce to integer.
+	if (index >= len) return len;
+	if (index >= 0) return index;
+	index += len;
+	if (index >= 0) return index;
+	return 0;
+};
+
 var toType = function(flag) {
 	switch (flag) {
 		case 0:
@@ -19,7 +29,7 @@ var toType = function(flag) {
 		case 6:
 		return 'fifo';
 		case 7:
-		return 'contiguous-file'
+		return 'contiguous-file';
 		case 72:
 		return 'pax-header';
 	}
@@ -78,7 +88,7 @@ var encodeOct = function(val, n) {
 };
 
 var decodeOct = function(val, offset) {
-	return parseInt(val.slice(offset, indexOf(val, 32, offset)).toString(), 8);
+	return parseInt(val.slice(offset, clamp(indexOf(val, 32, offset), val.length, val.length)).toString(), 8);
 };
 
 var decodeStr = function(val, offset) {
diff --git a/pack.js b/pack.js
index a4ad380..d43fd9d 100644
--- a/pack.js
+++ b/pack.js
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ var util = require('util');
 var eos = require('end-of-stream');
 var headers = require('./headers');
 
+var Readable = stream.Readable || require('readable-stream').Readable;
+var Writable = stream.Writable || require('readable-stream').Writable;
+
 var END_OF_TAR = new Buffer(1024);
 END_OF_TAR.fill(0);
 
@@ -14,13 +17,13 @@ var overflow = function(self, size) {
 };
 
 var Sink = function(to) {
-	stream.Writable.call(this);
+	Writable.call(this);
 	this.written = 0;
 	this._to = to;
 	this._destroyed = false;
 };
 
-util.inherits(Sink, stream.Writable);
+util.inherits(Sink, Writable);
 
 Sink.prototype._write = function(data, enc, cb) {
 	this.written += data.length;
@@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ Sink.prototype.destroy = function() {
 
 var Pack = function(opts) {
 	if (!(this instanceof Pack)) return new Pack(opts);
-	stream.Readable.call(this, opts);
+	Readable.call(this, opts);
 
 	this._drain = noop;
 	this._finalized = false;
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ var Pack = function(opts) {
 	this._stream = null;
 };
 
-util.inherits(Pack, stream.Readable);
+util.inherits(Pack, Readable);
 
 Pack.prototype.entry = function(header, buffer, callback) {
 	if (this._stream) throw new Error('already piping an entry');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c657a0e..58582d7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
   "description": "tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It is streams2 and operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.",
   "repository": "git://github.com:mafintosh/tar-stream.git",
   "author": "Mathias Buus <mathiasbuus@gmail.com>",
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">= 0.8.0"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
     "end-of-stream": "~0.1.3",
     "bl": "~0.6.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "tap": "~0.4.6",
-    "concat-stream": "~1.2.1"
+    "concat-stream": "~1.2.1",
+    "readable-stream": "~1.1.9"
   },
   "scripts": {
 	"test": "tap test/*.js"
diff --git a/test/extract.js b/test/extract.js
index 5f9f6db..6880cae 100644
--- a/test/extract.js
+++ b/test/extract.js
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ var fixtures = require('./fixtures');
 var concat = require('concat-stream');
 var fs = require('fs');
 
+var clamp = function(index, len, defaultValue) {
+	if (typeof index !== 'number') return defaultValue;
+	index = ~~index;  // Coerce to integer.
+	if (index >= len) return len;
+	if (index >= 0) return index;
+	index += len;
+	if (index >= 0) return index;
+	return 0;
+};
+
 test('one-file', function(t) {
 	t.plan(3);
 
@@ -76,7 +86,7 @@ test('chunked-one-file', function(t) {
 	var b = fs.readFileSync(fixtures.ONE_FILE_TAR);
 
 	for (var i = 0; i < b.length; i += 321) {
-		extract.write(b.slice(i, i+321));
+		extract.write(b.slice(i, clamp(i+321, b.length, b.length)));
 	}
 	extract.end();
 });
@@ -203,7 +213,7 @@ test('chunked-multi-file', function(t) {
 
 	var b = fs.readFileSync(fixtures.MULTI_FILE_TAR);
 	for (var i = 0; i < b.length; i += 321) {
-		extract.write(b.slice(i, i+321));
+		extract.write(b.slice(i, clamp(i+321, b.length, b.length)));
 	}
 	extract.end();
 });