From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: .tar.gz
28 Jul 1997 02:56:51 -0700
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>If you are not using GNU tar then you may have to unzip the file
>before untarring
>
>    gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -

Last time I checked (version b17.1), this did not work,
because pipes were opened in text mode, not binary mode.
Instead I had to use

     gunzip file.tar.gz
     tar xf - file.tar

Has this changed since b17.1?

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