tar-mode in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 cannot count, select ...

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

When viewing a gzip'ed tar file a message like 'tar-view: Args out of  
range: 10060955, 10072067' can be displayed. Viewing the same file in  
the same archive with GNU Emacs 22.0.50 no such message comes up.

Viewing a file README in that same archive shows in GNU Emacs 22.0.50  
a readable text, in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 it seems to be binary. Looking  
into the preceding PNG file I can see at its end the second and the  
third line of the README file, eight ASCII NUL (^@) follow, no newline.


Doing a CVS update 16:50 MESZ (UTC+2) brings no new Lisp or C code,  
so a simple make is started. Gcc used is 'gcc version 4.0.0 20041026  
(Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061), Thread model: posix.' The new  
version exhibits the same behaviour, launching it with -Q does not  
change it.

It seems as if the archive needs to have a size of some MB. ZIP files  
seem to work, although I once received 'archive_get_descr: Entry is  
not a regular member of the archive' -- the archive came from Mac OS  
X ...


In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.5.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
of 2006-03-26 on localhost
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '--with- 
xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar22:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/ 
auctex/images:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -faltivec - 
maltivec -mabi=altivec -mcpu=7450 -no-cpp-precomp -fomit-frame- 
pointer -foptimize-register-move -fcprop-registers -frename-registers  
-freorder-blocks -fpeephole -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mpowerpc-gpopt'  
'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I/sw/include/libpng12 -I/sw/lib/pango- 
ft219/include -I/sw/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include - 
I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib - 
L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib - 
L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t



--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

  It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
-- Garfield