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diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi index 1b03a3967aa..1612fc75d67 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi @@ -779,9 +779,15 @@ suitable guess made using the variables @code{lpr-command} and @item Z Compress the specified files (@code{dired-do-compress}). If the file appears to be a compressed file already, uncompress it instead. Each -marked file is compressed into its own archive. This uses the +marked file is compressed into its own archive; this uses the @command{gzip} program if it is available, otherwise it uses -@command{compress}. +@command{compress}. On a directory name, this command produces a +compressed @file{.tar.gz} archive containing all of the directory's +files, by running the @command{tar} command with output piped to +@command{gzip}. To allow decompression of compressed directories, +typing @kbd{Z} on a @file{.tar.gz} or @file{.tgz} archive file unpacks +all the files in the archive into a directory whose name is the +archive name with the extension removed. @findex dired-do-compress-to @kindex c @r{(Dired)} |