Why am I unable to decompress and extract files from a gzip compressed tar archive file with tar -tf?

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  • Why am I unable to decompress and extract files from a gzip compressed tar archive file with tar -tf?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • tar

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