From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87lhpzs9k3.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> <87ha0nkuio.fsf@web.de> <8e86d301-5f9a-464d-af5d-77f74077a3ee@default> <877g1jkt8m.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409864465 23921 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2014 21:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:01:05 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 23:00:58 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 1XPe9I-0003aC-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPe9I-0006pW-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPe8h-0006n8-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:00:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPe8Y-0006IW-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPe8Y-0006IS-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s84L08KQ019144 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:00:09 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s84L08XO021708 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:00:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0010.oracle.com (abhmp0010.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s84L07tP010905; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:00:07 GMT In-Reply-To: <877g1jkt8m.fsf@web.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:99653 Archived-At: > > 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". >=20 > 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.