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Old 06-01-2019
@scrutinizer / @neo......

Thank you for your post guys but........

AFAIR vz will only be interpreted as the archive name if there is whitespace between the cf and vz as in cf vz, which the OP isn't doing.

There is no suggestion that the OP is starting his/her switch string with anything other than a mode switch; c, x, or t, and after that surely the switch order doesn't matter (provided any required arguments for those switches on the command line are given in the same order as the switches).

I guess any/all moderators on here could answer this once the OP posts the full command lines s/he is using.
I repeat, until that happens, we are all in the dark.

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