Why does Xarchiver emit this error message when handling tar archives?
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## Why does Xarchiver emit this error message when handling tar archives?

Xarchiver is only a frontend which runs the archiver and reports ITS error messages. Most probably you are opening an archive produced with older versions of tar than the one you are currently using or the archive is corrupted.

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