Re: tgz extension and dired-do-compress

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:18:21 +0100
> 
>  
> Hi   The setting of the variable    dired-filetype-compress-regexp 
> is a variable defined in ‘dired-filetype-face.el’.  Its value is 

That's not the variable relevant to dired-do-compress.  But that's not
your problem, as the variable dired-compress-file-suffixes also
includes .tgz.

> However whenever I try to run dired-do-compress on a tgz archive it is 
> not uncompressed to a tar archive. What do I miss? 

I don't know, because it works for me.  Did you try in "emacs -Q"?