tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

[Bertrand Caplet]

> Ran this command on Cygwin64
> 
> $file mytar.gz
> mytar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
> 
> Did you want  me to run this command on Linux?
> 
> Thanks

Well as I said it's a gzip archive not a tar + gzip you can't extract it
with tar.
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