From: Warner Losh (imp@boulder.parcplace.com)
Date: 07/09/93 

From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: gzip -d | tar
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 18:36:02 GMT

In article <1993Jul9.180750.1@vms1.bham.ac.uk> B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk writes:
>This thred is getting a bit old and I'm ammazed that no-one has pointed
>out that if you get GNU-tar you can just:
>tar xvzf file
> ^this calls gzip -d automatically

GNU tar 1.11.2 or later is needed to have gzip automatically called.
SLS 1.02 includes 1.10.

Warner 

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