tarfile woes

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:29:50 +0200, rumours say that Hans-Joachim
Widmaier <hjwidmaier at web.de> might have written:

> - It does not handle compressed (.Z) archives. Of course there's
>   noone to blame. The gzip utility (which is used by gnu tar) handles
>   this ancient algorithm, but apparently, zlib does not. :-(

You know there's a gzip module, don't you?
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