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Subject: Re: Invalid nar signature
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:33:42 -0500
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> The output of the following code in the context of the
> (guix serialization) module is "\r", it should be "nix-archive-1":
>
>   (with-input-from-file "some-nar-file"
>     (lambda ()
>       (read-string (current-input-port))))

Also, note that the following code *does* yield "nix-archive-1":

   (with-input-from-file "some-nar-file"
     (lambda ()
       (read-int (current-input-port))
       (read-string (current-input-port))))

So, if I remove the first 8 bytes of the file (which when read as an
integer is 1), things look good.  What's going on here?

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