Re: [Bug-tar] Possible bug in auto detection of extraction program

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/14/2014 06:41 AM, Sasa Vilic wrote:
> I guess that in out particular case it just might be that accidentally checksum 
> is correct.

Thanks for the bug report.  Perhaps tar could be modified to not only 
look at the checksum, but also attempt to decode the first header (as a 
sort of "larger" checksum).  That would have fixed your problemand would 
fix the typical case of this sort of thing,though I suppose it still 
wouldn't work in general.