[Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.23: 1.6 Reporting bugs or suggestions

[nomnex]

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Reports.html#SEC7

Hi, I am a novice user (.tar).  After reading the manual (good tutorial
btw)  It was clear that I could use tar + compression e.g. tar + j
option (bzip) or tar + -z option (gzip) to create compressed archives.
What was less obvious was tar can decompress compressed archives without
-j or -z option?  E.g. tar -xvf foo.tar will decompress foo.tar.bz2 or
foo.tar.gz equally.

nomnex [Marc]