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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: chksum in tar header block
Keywords: tar,header,chksum
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Date: 27 Jan 88 03:50:24 GMT
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Look in section 5 of your manual, at the entry that describes the
tar tape format.  It explains how the checksum is calculated.

-- 
Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf