From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ^M in the info files Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:58:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <484F1FAB.6070005@gmail.com> <487481B2.3090302@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215627719 23806 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2008 18:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney , Kenichi Handa To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 20:22:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGeJ5-0005Mt-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:22:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGeIE-0003Zt-Gt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGeHW-00035l-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGeHU-00033y-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60464 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGeHU-00033m-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:1485) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGeHO-0003bo-6L; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id E8DEC40284; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:20:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1215627634; bh=mQTKRzsaXjfRHFQ/AMhetyiVtGEh+SISOfzaQx7ut 0k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vZEb07/OxgSiJQjiA4HBmfscEjeQcIRR92rZT 5cZ/hwYRlJB6iIDjr8vA0zR5Y4G1+vjqXV5pSUwFpaYLcU+E5DIFp8cnxC1dNKlVm98 abd1VoGM2ulrpYHJOuZ3Pj5DuvTzhdonndpWQUiYg7MQwYL4IygC/H6gwpG8huJTWAg = Original-Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id D9B5A210686; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:58:29 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:49:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2008 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 37 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100492 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> I've just found that the file "efaq" contains null-bytes >> ('\0') after "Concept Index\n********\n\n". "viper" also >> contains null-bytes. Stefan> Why is that? Isn't it an error in those files? There are *many* such examples in my info directory. 230 out of 856 files in my /usr/share/info have them. It looks like all of them have one or more instances of the line (in cat --show-all syntax): ^@^H[index^@^H]$ In the case of faq.texi it is from the code: @node Concept index, , Mail and news, Top @unnumbered Concept Index @printindex cp @contents I have texinfo-4.12 installed, but some of the relevant files date back as far as 2004/August, so it isn't just a recent thing. >From my most recent compile of emacs, it affects: emacs-mime.info.bz2 gnus-5.info.bz2 message.info.bz2 pgg.info.bz2 sasl.info.bz2 sieve.info.bz2 -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6