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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
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> 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.

X.tar is not compressed: `tar' is only a format that bundles several
files together.


        Stefan