-* It is no longer necessary to specify -Z,-z, or -j options to
-read compressed archives. GNU tar automatically detects the type
-of archive it has to deal with and runs an appropriate decompressing
-command. Thus, you can now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
+* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
+necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
+now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.