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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:27:39 +0100
From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] building Alef language
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, at 9:45 PM, Phil Kulin wrote:
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> # I don't know why, but "tar x alef.tgz" command do nothing...

You requested to extract a file named alef.tgz from a tar stream on standard input. ;) You need the f option to specify a tar file.