Re: TRAMP copies binary files incorrectly

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Chris <address@hidden> writes:

> 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:address@hidden:~/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?

The byte sequence 0x81 0xCE looks like Emacs' internal
character representation for ISO-8859-1 0xCE character.  So,
it seems that Emacs is doing character-DECODING conversion
on reading that 1-byte file, and then it writes without
encoding it back.

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Kenichi Handa
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