Add support for turning rpm's into tar's and skipping the gzip stage ...
Much faster on slower boxes and useful when you just want to rip apart 
a rpm and look at the insides.

--- rpm2targz
+++ rpm2targz
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 
+BASENAME="`basename $0`"
 if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
   echo "$0:  Converts RPM format to standard GNU tar + GNU zip format."
   if [ -e /etc/slackware-version ]; then
@@ -44,8 +45,10 @@
   fi
   echo
   echo "Usage:      $0 <file.rpm>"
-  if [ "`basename $0`" = "rpm2tgz" ]; then
+  if [ "$BASENAME" = "rpm2tgz" ]; then
     echo "            (Outputs \"file.tgz\")"
+  elif [ "$BASENAME" = "rpm2tar" ]; then
+    echo "            (Outputs \"file.tar\")"
   else
     echo "            (Outputs \"file.tar.gz\")"
   fi
@@ -118,9 +121,11 @@
     rm -f $ofn
     find . -type d -perm 700 -exec chmod 755 {} \; )
   ( cd ${WORKDIR} ; tar cf - . ) > `basename $i .rpm`.tar
-  gzip -9 `basename $i .rpm`.tar
-  if [ "`basename $0`" = "rpm2tgz" ]; then
-    mv `basename $i .rpm`.tar.gz `basename $i .rpm`.tgz
+  if [ "$BASENAME" != "rpm2tar" ]; then
+    gzip -9 `basename $i .rpm`.tar
+    if [ "$BASENAME" = "rpm2tgz" ]; then
+      mv `basename $i .rpm`.tar.gz `basename $i .rpm`.tgz
+    fi
   fi
   ( rm -rf "${WORKDIR}/*" )
   echo