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* db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
| ~/bin> tarx ../tarfiles/NumNotes        
| tar (child): ../tarfiles/NumNotes: Cannot open: No such file or directory
--<snip-snip>--
| ~/bin> ls ../tarfiles/Num*
| ../tarfiles/NumNotes.tar.gz
>
| The last line proves that it's lying.

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?

R'