Re: [found the culprit]

[Stefan Monnier]

>> And indeed Dired's `Z` has been compressing directories to tar.gz and
>> uncompressing tar.gz to directories (rather than to tar files) for many
>> years now.
>
> Well, for some value of "many": that feature was added 3 years ago, if
> my Git-fu is strong enough.

I thought it was added to Emacs-24, but indeed it only appeared in
Emacs-25.  So, yes, that doesn't qualify for "many".  "A few"?


        Stefan