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X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:107427 Archived-At: True, I conflated/confused archiving/compressing, somehow inevitable = with *.zip but not with *.tgz and so on yet many if not most users naturally consider the combination as a = single concept. Peace =97Devon P.S. Even if dired-do-archive existed to serve this major use case, the difference between foo.zip and foo.gz is utterly obscure and to create foo.zip.gz is insanely perverse. P.P.S. (dired "/sudo::=94) works, can (dired =93/zip::=94) be far? Then dired-do-copy would work. Might be easier for shift-C to work in Zip-Archive mode as in dired. On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/7/2015 4:22 PM, Devon Sean McCullough wrote: >> P.S. Obviously foo.tar would be treated likewise. >=20 > That's not at all obvious. I would expect foo.tar to be compressed to = foo.tar.gz. I think that's a much more common use case. >=20 > Ken >=20