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RE: [found the culprit]
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: [found the culprit] |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:31:46 -0800 (PST) |
>> 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).
>
> Unfortunately some sites require to upload files in tar format and not
> in tar.gz format.
Yes. Upload, download, email... It's quite possible for
a user to obtain a tar file, regardless of whether Stefan -
or even everyone here - considers tar.gz to be the only
useful archive format.
The question is whether `Z' should support tar files.
If so, a second question could be whether to have
another command that supports only tar.gz (or "tar.lz",
tgz, ...) files.
> If I understand the current situation correctly, there is no key
> combination or interactive function which would allow to just
> uncompress a tgz (tar.gz) file? The only option is to use the
> dired-do-shell-command?
I guess so. One person's enhancement can be another
person's annoyance.
- 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, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Uwe Brauer, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit],
Drew Adams <=
- 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
- Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), Richard Stallman, 2018/11/15
- Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/11/14