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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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 version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
 
+* 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'.
+
 * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
 prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
 from being purged.

diff --git a/tests/star/README b/tests/star/README
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--- a/tests/star/README
+++ b/tests/star/README
@@ -12,43 +12,34 @@ or
 
 Following is a short description of the tests:
 
-* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar
+* gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at
 
 These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
 These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
 by previous versions of GNU tar.
 
-* multi-fail.sh
+* multi-fail.at
 
 Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
 These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
 of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). 
 
-* ustar-big-2g.sh
+* ustar-big-2g.at
 
 Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
 the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
 
-* ustar-big-8g.sh
+* ustar-big-8g.at
 
 Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
 files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
 format.
 
-* pax-big-10g.sh
+* pax-big-10g.at
 
 Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
 containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
 
-* qucktest.sh
-
-A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires
-the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart
-from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed.
-The test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good
-idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running
-it.
-
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