From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:38:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e86d301-5f9a-464d-af5d-77f74077a3ee@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha0nkuio.fsf@web.de>
> > am I missing something? When pressing Z in dired on a X.tgz file
> > dired-do-compress does not uncompress the file instead it
> > compresses it to an X.tar file even though the function advertises
> > also to uncompress files.
>
> I think that mechanism is by intent limited to single files. But a
> tar archive can hold a whole directory tree.
A couple of people have already explained that a tar archive is
uncompressed, and X.tar is the correct result of uncompressing
X.tgz.
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 15:13 dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-04 18:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-05 5:33 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-04 20:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 20:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-09-04 20:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 21:00 ` Drew Adams
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2014-09-04 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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