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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:47:28 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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


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