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Grex Info Item 52: question about .taz files
Entered by cwb on Thu Jul 8 15:59:59 UTC 1993:

     What decompression program do I need to use in order to decompress a
file with a .taz extension?  Do we have it here?
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#1 of 1 by mju on Thu Jul 8 17:15:41 1993:

It's probably a renamed .tar.Z or .tar.z file.  This frequently happens
when someone transfers a file to an MS-DOS system, which can't handle
two dots in a filename.  .tar-z is another frequent replacement for
.tar.Z on VMS systems, where filenames are not case-sensitive and can
have only one dot.

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