From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [found the culprit]
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:31:46 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <340d2bf9-46b9-4bb3-aea6-0f4dd507b6cd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lcjoauq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
>> FWIW, I consider ".tar.gz" (or "tar.lz", ...) as the archive
>> format (rather than as a combination of tar and compression):
>> since the tar format does not support random access anyway
>> there's very little benefit to having it uncompressed (unless
>> the content can't be compressed e.g. because it's already compressed).
>
> Unfortunately some sites require to upload files in tar format and not
> in tar.gz format.
Yes. Upload, download, email... It's quite possible for
a user to obtain a tar file, regardless of whether Stefan -
or even everyone here - considers tar.gz to be the only
useful archive format.
The question is whether `Z' should support tar files.
If so, a second question could be whether to have
another command that supports only tar.gz (or "tar.lz",
tgz, ...) files.
> If I understand the current situation correctly, there is no key
> combination or interactive function which would allow to just
> uncompress a tgz (tar.gz) file? The only option is to use the
> dired-do-shell-command?
I guess so. One person's enhancement can be another
person's annoyance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-13 13:18 tgz extension and dired-do-compress Uwe Brauer
2018-11-13 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-13 18:15 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:07 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:12 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 13:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-14 13:50 ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 15:43 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 15:49 ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 16:57 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 17:31 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-11-14 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 21:01 ` jpff
2018-11-16 6:45 ` Van L
2018-11-16 0:51 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Richard Stallman
2018-11-14 12:21 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-14 13:16 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] Uwe Brauer
[not found] ` <<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
[not found] ` <<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 16:17 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
2018-11-14 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 16:48 ` [found the culprit] Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 17:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:33 ` Davis Herring
2018-11-14 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-15 2:34 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-16 0:55 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16 2:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-16 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-16 22:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-16 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 8:04 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-18 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 1:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 7:42 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-15 4:57 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Yuri Khan
2018-11-15 9:46 ` [found the culprit] Andreas Schwab
2018-11-15 15:21 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <<<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
[not found] ` <<<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<f0a3a374-d8ac-45b6-8de6-0e8ccc0ea696@default>
[not found] ` <<83y39v7gym.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 17:10 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
[not found] <<875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
[not found] <<<875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
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