openBSD 3.7 tar command - tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search

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Clever Monkey <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

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pankajtakawale wrote:

pankajtakawale · *nix forums beginner Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 21

I have 17 MB tar file created on suse9,
When I tvf or xvf that file on openBSD 3.7, at the end of listing or
extracting, tar displays following warning messages

tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached

But listing & extracting works just fine.
I ran md5sum command on all files - extracted using openBSD 3.7 tar AND
extracted using suse9 tar. Checksum is same for both extracted files.
But when i tvf or xvf the same tar file on other OSs like suse9 ,
solaris, it doesnt throw these warnings.

What causes openbsd throw this messages?

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