From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:06:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83bnc083k3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151013135354.28594.43074@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87io69opbs.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444928833 32679 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 17:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ohwoeowho@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 19:07:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Zmlza-0001Ys-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:07:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlzZ-0001fs-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmlyk-0001Sl-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmlyg-0007aK-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:37498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmlyg-0007ZQ-Fr; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW900100TWMG600@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:05:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW9001LGU4ZX200@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:05:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191665 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:48:11 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Personally I'd just go with: > > uncompress-prog | tar (You mean "compress-prog", I think. This is about compressing.) I agree. > and simply assume that "uncompress-prog" is present (like the command > does now, I guess). Yes, and it's not a separate assumption: Tar runs that program as well to uncompress the tarball, so if that program is missing, "tar -caf" won't work as well.