diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 937feca..ad9d7af 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ****************************************************************************
 # ChangeLog for lesspipe.sh						   #
 ****************************************************************************
+Version 2.16 Nov 10 2024
 - security fix: check file name if used with ar
 - add --ansi to mdcat (fixes #48)
 - improved recognition of appimage files
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f4c0039..f1af8f5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # lesspipe.sh, a preprocessor for less
 
-Version: 2.15
+Version: 2.16
 Author : Wolfgang Friebel [wp.friebel@gmail.com](mailto://wp.friebel@gmail.com)
 License: GPL
 
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ the author by email.
         eval "$(lesspipe.sh)"             # (bash) or
         lesspipe.sh | source /dev/stdin   # (zsh)
 ```
+Several Linux distributions do now set **LESSOPEN** by default and if the contents of the variable is not referring to this lesspipe.sh version, it has to be redefined to get the functionality described here.
+
  As `lesspipe.sh` is accepting only a single argument, a hierarchical list of file
  names has to be separated by a non-blank character. A colon is rarely found
  in file names, therefore it has been chosen as the separator character. If a
diff --git a/lesscomplete b/lesscomplete
index 6abe950..a826485 100755
--- a/lesscomplete
+++ b/lesscomplete
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # lesscomplete, a helper script for the _less completion script
-# synced with lesspipe 2.15
+# synced with lesspipe 2.16
 # Author: Wolfgang Friebel (wp.friebel AT gmail.com)
 
 has_cmd () {
@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ get_unpack_cmd () {
 				{ has_cmd 7za && prog=7za; } ;;
 		esac
 	fi
+	if [[ "$prog" = ar && "$2" = *@* ]]; then
+		t=$(nexttmp)
+		cat "$2" > "$t"
+		set "$2" "$t"
+	fi
 	[[ -n $prog ]] && cmd=(isarchive "$prog" "$2" "$file2")
 	if [[ -n ${cmd[*]} ]]; then
 		[[ -n "$file2" ]] && file2= && return
@@ -333,6 +338,11 @@ isdeb () {
 			bsdtar xOf "$1" "$data" | bsdtar xOf - "$2"
 		fi
 	else
+		if [[ "$1" = *@* ]]; then
+			t=$(nexttmp)
+			cat "$1" > "$t"
+			set "$1" "$t"
+		fi
 		data=$(ar t "$1"|grep data)
 		ft=$(ar p "$1" "$data" | filetype -)
 		get_unpack_cmd "$ft" -
diff --git a/lesspipe.sh b/lesspipe.sh
index 256daea..3ad4f97 100755
--- a/lesspipe.sh
+++ b/lesspipe.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # lesspipe.sh, a preprocessor for less
-lesspipe_version=2.15
+lesspipe_version=2.16
 # Author: Wolfgang Friebel (wp.friebel AT gmail.com)
 
 has_cmd () {
diff --git a/packaging/lesspipe.spec b/packaging/lesspipe.spec
index 01588af..9192dc7 100644
--- a/packaging/lesspipe.spec
+++ b/packaging/lesspipe.spec
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ cd $RPM_BUILD_DIR
 %docdir %{prefix}/share/man/man1
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Nov 10 2024 2.16-1 - wp.friebel@gmail.com
+- file name checks for ar
 * Thu Oct 03 2024 2.15-1 - wp.friebel@gmail.com
 - display all certificates in pem files
 * Fri Aug 16 2024 2.14-1 - wp.friebel@gmail.com