vmstar fails on in OpenVMS installed on axpbox

[joukj]

I noticed that vmstar (http://antinode.info/dec/sw/vmstar.html) fails on OpenVMS (at least the 8.4-2L1). Both versions compiled with and without "large-file-support" fail when extracting files from a .tar file. A typical error (I use the Openssl distribution just as an example) is shown below:

$ tar -xf OPENSS-1_1_1G_TAR.
tar : directory checksum error for:
 OpenSSL CHANGES
 ----------------------------

 This is high-level summary of the most important changes.
  Fo
SYSTEM-F-DATALOST, data lost
$

What you see is part of a file that is to be extracted. It looks that some files are extracted correctly, but at a certain point is misreads the file or loses position.