Re: [XEmacs] Tramp Bug? -- Nachtrag

[Pete Forman]

At 2002-09-23 22:19 +0200, Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= wrote:
> (I think programs shouldn't be allowed to frob permissions of files
> that output gets redirected to, especially not /dev/null.  Oh, well.)

Are you saying that it mimencode is the only offender?  In that case
a workaround might be

   echo xyzzy | mimencode -b | mimencode -b -u | cat >/dev/null


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