> You'd probably want a mutant
> form of gzipped tar, though:  instead of gzipping an entire tar archive, you'd
> probably want to tar up gzipped files instead.

This sounds like the SCO tar format where a field in the
tar header indicated that the bytestream was compress(1)ed.

How many times will we reinvent history ? :-)

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