Re: Files with .tgz extension?

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From: JNW International
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00

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In article <4m9h2j$o7t@shellx.best.com>, thug <thug@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>In article <4m9f7l$829@shellx.best.com>,
>JNW International <jnw@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>I tried using gzip -d to decompress them but failed.  Does anyone
>>know how to decompress them?  They are supposed to be gzipped tar
>>image files?  TIA...
>
>Try...
>   cat file.tgz| gzip -d| tar xvf -

Unfortunately it doesn't work.  Same error message: it's not in gzip
format.

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From: jnw@shellx.best.com (JNW International)
Subject: Re: Files with .tgz extension?
Date: 1996/05/01
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