Re: master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:48:11 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Personally I'd just go with:
> 
>   uncompress-prog | tar

(You mean "compress-prog", I think.  This is about compressing.)

I agree.

> and simply assume that "uncompress-prog" is present (like the command
> does now, I guess).

Yes, and it's not a separate assumption: Tar runs that program as well
to uncompress the tarball, so if that program is missing, "tar -caf"
won't work as well.