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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [found the culprit]
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:31:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <340d2bf9-46b9-4bb3-aea6-0f4dd507b6cd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lcjoauq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

>> FWIW, I consider ".tar.gz" (or "tar.lz", ...) as the archive
>> format (rather than as a combination of tar and compression):
>> since the tar format does not support random access anyway
>> there's very little benefit to having it uncompressed (unless
>> the content can't be compressed e.g. because it's already compressed).
> 
> Unfortunately some sites require to upload files in tar format and not
> in tar.gz format.

Yes.  Upload, download, email...  It's quite possible for
a user to obtain a tar file, regardless of whether Stefan -
or even everyone here - considers tar.gz to be the only
useful archive format.

The question is whether `Z' should support tar files.

If so, a second question could be whether to have
another command that supports only tar.gz (or "tar.lz",
tgz, ...) files.

> If I understand the current situation correctly, there is no key
> combination or interactive function which would allow to just
> uncompress a tgz (tar.gz) file? The only option is to use the
> dired-do-shell-command?

I guess so.  One person's enhancement can be another
person's annoyance.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13 13:18 tgz extension and dired-do-compress Uwe Brauer
2018-11-13 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-13 18:15   ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:07   ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:12     ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 13:15       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-14 13:50         ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 15:43       ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 15:49         ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 16:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 16:39         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 16:57           ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 17:31             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-11-14 18:20               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:58                 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:43                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:38             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 21:01               ` jpff
2018-11-16  6:45                 ` Van L
2018-11-16  0:51         ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Richard Stallman
2018-11-14 12:21     ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-14 13:16       ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] Uwe Brauer
     [not found]     ` <<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
     [not found]       ` <<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 16:17         ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
2018-11-14 16:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 16:48             ` [found the culprit] Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 17:22               ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 18:03                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:40                   ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:33           ` Davis Herring
2018-11-14 21:21             ` Drew Adams
2018-11-15  2:34             ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-16  0:55               ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16  2:24                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16  7:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-16 13:04                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-16 22:59                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16 16:17                   ` Drew Adams
2018-11-16 23:01                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17  8:04                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-18  0:24                         ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17  1:05                     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16 23:01                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17  7:42                     ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-15  4:57           ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Yuri Khan
2018-11-15  9:46             ` [found the culprit] Andreas Schwab
2018-11-15 15:21               ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]     ` <<<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
     [not found]       ` <<<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <<f0a3a374-d8ac-45b6-8de6-0e8ccc0ea696@default>
     [not found]           ` <<83y39v7gym.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 17:10             ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
     [not found] <<875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
     [not found] <<<875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

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