Re: EOL conversion of files in .tar archives

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:59:44 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This solves the problem with the EOL decoding, but reveals a very
> > strange phenomenon: dos-w32.el and dos-w32.elc behave differently.
> > The latter is preloaded into Emacs on Windows, and if I visit a file
> > inside a tarball (after applying the patch below), plain text files
> > with Unix EOLs get latin-1-unix buffer-file-coding-system, instead of
> > the expected undecided-unix.  But if I manually load dos-w32.el and
> > visit the same file again, its buffer-file-coding-system is now
> > undecided-unix, as expected!  Is this some problem with the byte
> > compiler?
> 
> It is probably the result of using last-coding-system-used.

No, it cannot be that: the version of tar-mode.el with which I saw
this problem did not yet include the change which uses
last-coding-system-used.