From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:47:53 +0200 Message-ID: <877g1jkt8m.fsf@web.de> References: <87lhpzs9k3.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> <87ha0nkuio.fsf@web.de> <8e86d301-5f9a-464d-af5d-77f74077a3ee@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409863723 14043 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2014 20:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 20:48:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 22:48:36 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 1XPdxK-0003dh-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdxK-00082d-Gf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdx4-00081F-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdwy-0001Yd-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdwy-0001YD-D9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdwt-0003Jy-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:48:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-74-63.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.74.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:48:07 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-74-63.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:48:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-74-63.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/xYUqZQUXBVJDsUuXzjT9doLpvc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:99651 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > 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. Michael.