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> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: victor@idaccr.org (Victor S. Miller)
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:23:34 GMT
> 
> I've used jka-compr for quite a while.  It has worked without a
> problem.  Recently we converted to emacs 21.2.1, and now it just
> doesn't work -- i.e. compressed files are not recognized.  Any
> debugging suggestions?  I've checked -- it really is loaded.

See the doc string of the function auto-compression-mode.  I'm
guessing that your .emacs file turns on jka-compr in a way that
worked with previous versions of Emacs, but does not work anymore
with the latest versions.