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Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files |
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Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:20:15 +0200 |
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dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
You can visit a tar archive, even if gzipped, with tar-mode. Just hit v
from dired.
Michael.