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From: Out of Order <psamuels@hmc.edu>
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Subject: Answer: ST and Amiga Figlet versions
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nosferat@xmission.com writes:

> As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
> I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
> files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

.tgz is short for .tar.gz on systems where .tar.gz would make the
filename too long.  gzip and gunzip will unzip a .tgz into a .tar, then
you have to use tar (in UNIX, that's "tar xf filename.tar") to get
files out of it.

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          ude.cmh@sleumasp                       psamuels@hmc.edu
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