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(1) Extraction of files in AIX 5.2

Hi, In AIX 5.2, I have a tar file with *.tar.gz. I am unable to untar this. gunzip, unzip, zip utilities are not avialable. Please let me know how to go about this Thanks in advance -Arun
(1a)Have u tried gzcat command?

for single file which is zipped
gzcat 'file name' | pg : to view contents

for multiple files which are zipped
gzcat 'file name' | tar -tvf - : for viewing file names in verbose form
gzcat 'file name' | tar -xvf - : for extracting above
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(2) Unable to unzip the .gz file

Hi My server is RS-6000 with AIX 5.1. I am using as test server and trying to install softwares at this. I was trying to install Mozilla browzer at my server. 
I copied the Mozilla.base.tar.gz file with *ftp*
*binary* mode. But  i am unable to unzipped the file at my server. 
Here is the error i am getting.

# gunzip *.gz

gunzip: Mozilla.base.tar.gz: unexpected end of file

I tried with many other .gz files, but for all the .gz file
the message is coming *as above*. 

So do you think that the AIX gunzip is not compatiable?
(2a)try with
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gzip -d Mozilla.base.tar.gz




(3) How to uncompress or untar

Please help! I have a file that is in this format file.tar.gz How can I uncompress or use tar to unzip this file on AIX 4.3.3 Do I need to download gunzip, etc? How do I get the tar -xvf command to...
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(4) gzip errors

I am trying to extract Mozilla.base.tar.gz. Below is the command syntax I used along with error code that returned. Any suggestions! # gzip -cd Mozilla.base.tar.gz tar -xvf - x ./Mozilla.base,...