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| Has someone written a re-definition of
|	dired-compress and dired-uncompress
| so that these commands work on subdirectories?

	The easiest way would be to type M-! (un)compressdir dirname <RET>
     in the dired buffer for the parent directory, or use dirname = . for
     current directory.  M-! being whatever key the function shell-command
     is bound to.  This is also the easiest way to implement as a
     function, like:

(defun dired-compressdir ()
  (interactive)
  (shell-command (concat "compressdir " (dired-get-filename))))

	Place cursor on offending directory in dired & either invoke by
     using M-x dired-compressdir or bind a key to the function.  Similarly
     for dired-uncompressdir.

	Note that this will wait until compressdir has finished, which
     could be a long time!  To do it asynchronously, you need the
     background package from the elisp archive.  I think it easier to just
     use a *shell* buffer if you don't want the wait!

	Simon. 
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