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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/tar-mode.el | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/tar-mode.el b/lisp/tar-mode.el index c2d2033a641..dd12d9bbca9 100644 --- a/lisp/tar-mode.el +++ b/lisp/tar-mode.el @@ -1205,7 +1205,10 @@ Leaves the region wide." ;; Doing this here confuses things - the region gets left too wide! ;; I suppose this is run in a context where changing the buffer is bad. ;; (tar-pad-to-blocksize) - (write-region tar-header-offset (point-max) buffer-file-name nil t) + ;; tar-header-offset turns out to be null for files fetched with W3, + ;; at least. + (write-region (or tar-header-offset (point-min)) (point-max) + buffer-file-name nil t) (tar-clear-modification-flags) (set-buffer-modified-p nil)) (narrow-to-region 1 tar-header-offset)) |