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From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: tar problem
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* Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
| Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:
| > Why do you expect that if you tell tar to use a file named 'NumNotes'
| > that it should use a file named 'NumNotes.tar.gz' instead?
>
| The script they quoted does “tar -xf $1.tar.gz”, i.e. it adds .tar.gz.

Ah, sorry for the noise.  Hadn't spotted that post.

| Presumably the script they are actually running is different.

Obviously it is, considering the tar message.
Should be trivial to 'type tarx' to find out instead of accusing tar of
lying (but creating conspiracy contexts where none exist seems en vogue
these days... :-()

R'