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> I have an old CentOS system, so I copied an existing gzipped tarball from=
 it to my Cygwin and had no difficulties exploding that file.  It had exten=
sion '.tgz'.  Copied it to '.tar.gz' and still had no issue with it.
>=20
> What version of RedHat are you using, and what command(s) created the com=
pressed tarball you're having difficulty with?=20=20
>=20
> If you run the 'file' command on the tarball file, what does 'file' say i=
t contains?
>=20
> rake-0.8.4.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Mar  4 07:31:=
25 2009, from Unix
>=20
> Note that some flavors of tar don't have a very powerful compression libr=
ary, and some don't have one at all.  For those old ones you may be forced =
to use gunzip to get the tarball into a form the old tar understands.  (My =
ancient CentOS box has it, though.)

I agree with you Joi. Tar relies on content of file not extension.
Murthy, tell us what file yourfile.tar.gz does say ?

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