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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v3] Bug / question in tar |
| Date: | Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:42:03 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 |
On 03/20/2014 02:35 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
Does someone have an argument that it is useful?
One could run the command in an Emacs *shell* window. You can cut and paste the binary output into a real file and use it. I just now did it with 'tar'.
However, I agree that the benefits of this use outweigh the cost. Particularly since the bad behavior with binary data sent to arbitrary terminals can *really* mess them up, e.g., crash your system. And this particularly bites new users, which is not helpful at all.
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