Re: tramp and binary files?

[Michael Albinus]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know if you follow emacs-pretest-bug, but I encountered a bug

I check it from time to time, but I have overlooked your message.

> that I mentioned there, which should probably be thought directly to
> your attention.
>
> When I open a tramp/ssh connection to a binary file, such as an image,
> like /ssh:address@hidden:~/foo.png, I find that the binary shown is
> different from what I see on a local copy of the same file.  In
> particular, images are corrupted and cannot be viewed using
> image-mode.  This works fine for ange-ftp.

I'll check it. As workaround, you might use an out-of-band method like
scp; this shouldn't suffer from such problems. Which Tramp version do
you use? Tramp 2.0.53 from Emacs CVS?

Another help might be that Tramp 2.1 considers file-precious-flag,
that means at least it raises an error when it finds a corruption
during file copy.

Best regards, Michael.