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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1ec0b1b-9cae-42bb-8261-75d3102d449f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g1jkt8m.fsf@web.de>

> > As for `Z': you can apply it to any number of files, not just a
> > single file.  Just mark the files to be compressed, then `Z'.
> >
> > But I guess you (Michael) meant something different by "limited to
> > single files".
> 
> I meant it transforms single files to single files.  It's not
> intended to create achieves from multiple file, or extract files
> from such multi-file archives.

Thanks for clarifying.  That's what I thought you meant, and now
it's clear.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-04 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 15:13 dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-04 18:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-05  5:33   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-04 20:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 20:38   ` Drew Adams
2014-09-04 20:47     ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 21:00       ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.8267.1409853627.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-04 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier

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