4mula1;473483 Wrote: 
> I can't speak for OpenSolaris, but Solaris 10 tar doesn't support the z
> argument that GNU tar does.  The GNU version of tar is included but it's
> gtar instead of tar.

On Solaris 10, the location for the bundled gnu tar is
/usr/sfw/bin/gtar
(if the gnu packages are installed). Although sometimes for portability
it
is just easier to say gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tar xf -


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