From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:12 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <8761h2skbr.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> References: <87lhpzs9k3.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> <87tx4n6xm2.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409895244 30705 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2014 05:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 05:34:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 07:33:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9h-0000RH-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9h-0006cr-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9Q-0006cl-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9J-0003sB-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9J-0003rS-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XPm9H-00005H-AY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from p57accd12.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.172.205.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by p57accd12.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57accd12.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v0PJG6T2ahJwj0DLu49BylcpuK8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99660 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: > >> am I missing something? When pressing Z in dired on a X.tgz file >> dired-do-compress does not uncompress the file instead it compresses it >> to an X.tar file even though the function advertises also to uncompress >> files. > X.tgz (or X.tar.gz) is a compressed X.tar, so dired-do-compress is > behaving as advertised. Sorry for my blindness, this was not my day, you're right! > What do you want is uncompress&untar. I don't know if dired supports > this. Especially because I don't have any use of raw tar files. It would be nice if in dired .tgz files would be untarred and uncompressd on the fly by default. Thanks Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany