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Old 08-29-2001
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when files are double compressed they are usually compressed in tar then gz

so try

gunzip file
tar -xvf file

if that dosent work. you after the gunzip you can try uncompress (AIX) or unzip (solaris) it might just be a ziped file then gziped.