In a wonderful message dated of 20 Nov 1996 12:38:47 +0100, about:Re: Gzip for AmigaDOS
the mighty Matthias Scheler wrote:

 MS> No version of "gzip" handles ".tgz". It's the GNU version of "tar" which
 MS> handels ".tgz" or ".tar.gz" files.

Vapor has just made a UnTGZ command fast and efficient, Amiga style
compliant. (ftp.vapor.com)

The GNU version of tar from ADE that I own doesn't handle the "tar
zxvf" command line. It says "can't open a pipe:" (Yes PIPE: is mounted
:-)

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