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On 2011-03-24 01:23 +0800, Ed Reingold wrote:
> In an old version of GNU Emacs there was an add-on to dired that
> would tar the directory at the cursor.  Does this facility exist in
> 23.3?
> I looked in the dired*.el files, but found nothing.  It was very
> useful!

I am curious too. What did you do in old emacs to achieve that?

Leo