The file was created with 7-Zip on a 64-bit vista pc.

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On 2012-06-04, at 08:56, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I haven't had a chance to look at this, but if there is a big I expect it
> is in tar create. Most of the testing was done with tar 'x' (that is,
> extract). Quite a few addons, with quite a range of files and folder
> structures extract successfully.
>
> Can you confirm that the problem you found was with a file that the J tar
> created, rather than a file created by standard unix tar.
>
> If the bug is in J tar create checksum then it is probably easy to figure
> out the fix.
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Robert Cyr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> tar defines a var named checksum and uses a function named getchk.
>>
>> The 4 (out of 8) leading chars of checksum{d are '0', whereas the 4
>> leading chars of getchk d are '  '.  The other 4 are ok.
>>
>> This leads to an assertion failure.
>>
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