I have a 1 byte file on a remote server. If I use 'scp' to copy the file to my local machine, it copies correctly, but if I use: $ emacs -Q (copy-file "/ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/file" "/tmp/file") C-j to copy it, then the resulting local file is 2 bytes long.
I used hexl-mode to compare the two files: 1 byte correct version: 00000000: ce . 2 byte broken version: 00000000: 81ce .. Could it be that Emacs is doing some kind of character-encoding conversion? I don't want that to happen when all I'm doing is trying to copy a binary file. I originally noticed this problem when trying to copy a .jpg file from the remote machine. It grew from 92,349 bytes on the remote machine to 118,223 bytes locally, but given the recent issues with automatic image detection, I though it best to find a smaller test case. I tried the same thing copying the file from /ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/file1 to /tmp/file2 but that didn't exhibit the bug. Also, copying from the local machine to the remote machine works OK. In GNU Emacs 22.0.92.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-01-10 on trpaslik X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--prefix' '/usr/local' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-gif'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Shell Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t show-paren-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug