On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Well, can't "uncompress" work with gzip'd files? I recall that it can, but that
> may have been on a box (Dec Alpha?) with some upgraded "uncompress" capabilities.
> If it can work, then we should do something like
>
> uncompress -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -
gzip -cd will uncompress 'compressed' files, but compress can't
touch 'gzip'd files...
