Re: EOL conversion of files in .tar archives

[Chong Yidong]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This solves the problem with the EOL decoding, but reveals a very
>> strange phenomenon: dos-w32.el and dos-w32.elc behave differently.
>> The latter is preloaded into Emacs on Windows, and if I visit a file
>> inside a tarball (after applying the patch below), plain text files
>> with Unix EOLs get latin-1-unix buffer-file-coding-system, instead of
>> the expected undecided-unix.  But if I manually load dos-w32.el and
>> visit the same file again, its buffer-file-coding-system is now
>> undecided-unix, as expected!  Is this some problem with the byte
>> compiler?
>
> It is probably the result of using last-coding-system-used.  ISTR that
> in a similar situation, the coding system used during byte-compilation
> replaced last-coding-system-used to cause a similar problem.

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