Got this message from my upstream Linux sender
Please try as well but I previously tried renaming the .tar to .tar.gz (this is
an old Linux issue - not knowing a .tar was compressed unless it had .gz too -
that I haven't seen required in years) - this had no impact.
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:00:34 +0200
> From: bertrand.cap...@chunkz.net
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
>
>> Did you mean tar zcvf ? It still doesn't work on RedHat and Cygwin64.
>
> Yes, I meant this. What does not work ? Do you have a error message ?
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