Re: TRAMP's Customs agents open up our .gz luggage and forget...

[Michael Albinus]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

Hi Dan,

> Actually wouldn't it be better for TRAMP, to not attempt to uncompress
> when copying files in the first place, just like it did when we sent the
> same file, calling it "N", to keep TRAMP's Customs agents from opening
> up our luggage and (so enthralled by our multicolored underwear, forget
> to put everything back in place, hence revealing this bug.) Really, we
> are not intending to browse the file, just transfer it. So certainly
> TRAMP should do like the FTP command did, and switch into pure binary
> mode.
>
> Same problem happens with
> R runs the command dired-do-rename

Thanks for the report, there is an error, indeed. The appended patch
fixes it. It is on top of Tramp 2.5.1-pre, but I guess the patch applies
also on your Tramp 2.4.

Will be included in Tramp 2.5.0.1, which I plan to release end of this
week via GNU ELPA.

Best regards, Michael.

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