Re: TRAMP copies binary files incorrectly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:04:19 +0100
> From: Chris <address@hidden>
> 
> I have a 1 byte file on a remote server.  If I use 'scp' to copy the
> file to my local machine, it copies correctly, but if I use:
>   $ emacs -Q
>   (copy-file "/ssh:address@hidden:~/file" "/tmp/file") C-j
> to copy it, then the resulting local file is 2 bytes long.
> 
> I used hexl-mode to compare the two files:
> 
>   1 byte correct version:
>   00000000: ce                                       .
> 
>   2 byte broken version:
>   00000000: 81ce                                     ..
> 
> Could it be that Emacs is doing some kind of character-encoding
> conversion?

Tramp does some complicated encode/decode stuff to send the file on
the wire (since ssh is just a filter, so binary stuff cannot be easily
sent verbatim).  However, I just tried this, and I cannot reproduce
the problem with the current CVS: I get an exact replica of the
original file on my local machine.

Do _all_ files from that machine copy incorrectly?  Or just some?

Also, could you show the contents of the *Messages* buffer after the
copy operation finishes?