systems, default to "tar" since those systems probably have GNU
tar.
+2006-05-15 Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
+
+ * dired-x.el (dired-guess-shell-gnutar): On GNU and GNU/Linux
+ systems, default to "tar" since those systems probably have GNU
+ tar.
+
2006-05-14 Lars Hansen <larsh@soem.dk>
* desktop.el (desktop-missing-file-warning): Fix docstring.
:type 'boolean
:group 'dired-x)
-(defcustom dired-guess-shell-gnutar nil
+(defcustom dired-guess-shell-gnutar (when (or (eq system-type 'gnu)
+ (eq system-type 'gnu/linux))
+ "tar")
"*If non-nil, name of GNU tar executable.
\(E.g., \"tar\" or \"gtar\"). The `z' switch will be used with it for
compressed or gzip'ed tar files. If you don't have GNU tar, set this