tar-mode

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

I changed Subject:.

In article <200302260812.h1Q8CcO10018@rum.cs.yale.edu>, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> When tar-mode is called, the current buffer already contains the 24MB
> binary content of the file and it is also the buffer that should
> in the end contain the table of contents, so you need to somehow
> move those 24MB from this buffer to a new one (the "helper" one).

I still don't understand the necessity of the helper buffer.
When tar-mode is called, usually the current buffer is
unibyte, so there's no need of moving the contents to
another buffer.  Instead, it creates a buffer for table of
contents, setup that buffer, then switch to that buffer.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org