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Re: [found the culprit]
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: [found the culprit] |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:39:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> It seems I misunderstood your original report: you wanted Z on a .tgz
> file to only uncompress it? That indeed has been changed in Emacs 26,
> for consistency with a .tar.gz file. I don't think it's a good idea
> to have the previous subtle difference back.
Agreed.
> I do think that Z on a compressed Tar archive, be it a .tar.gz or .tgz
> file, should not by default unpack the archive. We could have a
> special prefix arg to request that, and by default we should just
> uncompress the file. But that's a different issue.
FWIW, I consider ".tar.gz" (or "tar.lz", ...) as the archive format
(rather than as a combination of tar and compression): since the tar
format does not support random access anyway there's very little benefit
to having it uncompressed (unless the content can't be compressed
e.g. because it's already compressed).
Stefan
- RE: [found the culprit], (continued)
- Re: [found the culprit], Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Yuri Khan, 2018/11/17
- Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), Yuri Khan, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Andreas Schwab, 2018/11/15
- Re: [found the culprit], Yuri Khan, 2018/11/15
- Re: [found the culprit],
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [found the culprit], Uwe Brauer, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], jpff, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Van L, 2018/11/16