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Re: [found the culprit]
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [found the culprit] |
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Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:01:27 -0500 |
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> I can't speak for Richard, but my response to
> your question would be that if, as in the case
> of zip, there is _no distinction_, then we need
> not distinguish. We can just do what we do now:
> perform that atomic action.
Uncompression produces one file which corresponds to the original
file. You can type Z again and recompress it.
Unpacking one archive file can result in multiple files.
It is misleading semantically to identify this with uncompression.
A Dired command to unpack an archive might lead to confusing results,
because the unpacked files might be outside the directory you are
operating on.
I do not see how to support packing an archive in Dired, because I do
not see a clean and simple way to specify which files to put in it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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