tgz2txz is used to convert packages from slackware tgz format, over to the new txz format used by slackware-current. (as per ChangeLog Entry : Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009) This script was orginally based on the rpm2tgz script written by Patrick Volkerding. FOR PEOPLE RUNNING SLACKWARE-12.2 (xz is of course part of -current) NOTE: This script requires you to have xz installed n your system. The best way is to download the source/a/xz/ slackbuild and source from a slackware-current mirror and build xz from scratch. You also may want to edit /etc/DIR_COLORS, so that txz files show up properly as archives.