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25.1; tar mode does not handle compressed archives without specific extensions

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25458: 25.1; tar mode does not handle compressed archives without specific extensions
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 03:13:24 +0200

Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org> writes:

> And no, there would be no way to tell Emacs to save foo.tar
> uncompressed.  I do not think that it would be important to be able to
> save it uncompressed.

I understand that that's your use case.  I'm saying that it would be
surprising to many, and that that's something that others might well
want to.

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