From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: peter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Viewing files in tar mode Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:51:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <56aa6ab7-57ed-44cc-ba67-c4f8591d11a0@u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260465923 12488 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2009 17:25:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:25:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 18:25:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NImlI-0001vH-5T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:25:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NImlH-0005o5-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:25:07 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.143.139.191 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1260456673 30292 127.0.0.1 (10 Dec 2009 14:51:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.143.139.191; posting-account=Q0_2HwoAAAC1wfO9Zvhq377DLcEZJQL2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175484 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:15:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70563 Archived-At: I have a tarfile (a.tar) containing a compressed text file and a jpeg file. So, a.tar contains b.gz and c.jpeg Emacs opens up the jpeg correctly - that is - I see the picture The compressed file is opened as a binary file - emacs does not uncompress it. Is there a way of persuading emacs to open the gzipped file correctly?