what's a checksum?

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Subject: what's a checksum?
From: Marlon Urias <nolram@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
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I downloaded a tar file an tried to unpack it and got this:

% tar xvf uri.tar 
tar: directory checksum error


what's this mean?

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