Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
>
>> 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.

> X.tgz (or X.tar.gz) is a compressed X.tar, so dired-do-compress is
> behaving as advertised.

Sorry for my blindness, this was not my day, you're right!

> What do you want is uncompress&untar.  I don't know if dired supports
> this.

Especially because I don't have any use of raw tar files.  It would be
nice if in dired .tgz files would be untarred and uncompressd on the fly
by default.

Thanks
        Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany