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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 09:17:41 +0200
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> term% gunzip netpbm-10.26.1.tbz
> gunzip: netpbm-10.26.1.tbz is not a gzip deflate file

"bunzip2" rather than "gunzip".

Is it not possible to use a single utility that recognises the nature
of the archive?  Enhanced Unix "tar" utilities all seem to be able to
do it.

I haven't explored how it is implemented, but I recall vaguely a
discussion in one of the NetBSD mailing lists about trivially adding
bunzipping to TAR a long time ago.

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