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diff --git a/lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.el b/lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.el
index fbe88f99e2326cbf3099119726963fa55e89aa5b..74525ec4409e603af521340b1372fc4c998d0d3f 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.el
+++ b/lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.el
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ options through Custom does this automatically."
   ;; can-append strip-extension-flag file-magic-bytes]
   '(["\\.Z\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'"
      "compressing"    "compress"     ("-c")
+     ;; gzip is more common than uncompress. It can only read, not write.
      "uncompressing"  "gzip"   ("-c" "-q" "-d")
      nil t "\037\235"]
      ;; Formerly, these had an additional arg "-c", but that fails with