*** tar-mode.el.orig	Tue Jul 20 16:49:51 1999
--- tar-mode.el	Tue Jul 20 16:40:49 1999
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*** 1310,1317
  ;;; Patch it in.
  
  ;;;###autoload
! (defvar tar-regexp "\\.\\(tar\\|tgz\\|tar\\.gz\\)\\'"
!   "The regular expression used to identify tar file names.")
  
  ;;;###autoload
  (setq auto-mode-alist

--- 1310,1322 -----
  ;;; Patch it in.
  
  ;;;###autoload
! (defvar tar-regexp "\\.tar$"
!   "The regular expression used to identify tar file names.
! Note that this regular expression must not match compressed tar file
! names; if it does, tar-mode will attempt to parse the compressed tar
! file as an uncompressed tar file, which will generate an error.  This
! is not a problem, as other modules that handle compression will
! uncompress the buffer and call `tar-mode' appropriately.")
  
  ;;;###autoload
  (setq auto-mode-alist