In 21.0 and earlier, all that's necessary to get tar-mode automatically
enabled is:
(autoload 'tar-mode "tar-mode")
If I start xemacs -vanilla and eval that statement, editing a tarfile, eg.
"db-2.6.4.tar", comes up correctly in tar-mode.
Now in 21.2, that no longer works. If I edit "db-2.6.4.tar" under 21.2, the
buffer comes up in fundamental mode. In fact, when I try to run M-x tar-mode,
I get "[No match]".
vin