diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 2733713d..2f790ff9 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 #   <![CDATA[
 #
-#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.65 2002/01/23 18:24:46 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.66 2002/01/23 21:35:17 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ complete -f cat less more ln strip
 
 # the following section lists completions that are redefined later
 # START exclude -- do NOT remove this line
-complete -f -X '*.bz2' bzip2
+#complete -f -X '*.bz2' bzip2
 complete -f -X '!*.bz2' bunzip2
 complete -f -X '!*.+(zip|ZIP|jar|JAR)' unzip
-complete -f -X '*.gz' gzip
+#complete -f -X '*.gz' gzip
 complete -f -X '*.Z' compress
 complete -f -X '!*.+(Z|gz|tgz|Gz)' gunzip zcat zmore
 complete -f -X '!*.Z' uncompress
@@ -1605,6 +1605,8 @@ list=( $( sed -ne '/^# START exclude/,/^# FINISH exclude/p' \
 	(
 	while read line
 	do
+		# ignore compspecs that are commented out
+		if [ "${line#\#}" != "$line" ]; then continue; fi
 		line=${line%# START exclude*}
 		line=${line%# FINISH exclude*}
 		line=${line##*\'}