Looks like you don't have compress in your PATH. Do you? No. There is no compress on my system (current CentOS -- I assume it is absent from lots of others too, due to the old patent stuff).
Yes, tar tzf invokes gzip which is able to read old compress' input.
That's what I assumed. So, how about making tar tf also invoke gzip?
In other words, why should tf fail when tzf works?
Thanks,
k
