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From: "Amir J. Katz" <amir@ndsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: viewing gzipped tar file fails (19.15 & 20.1)
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Following Steve's questions, I have researched this issue a little
deeper. Here are my findings: 

Setup: I have two gzipped tar files:

First one that I created myself
  (tar cvf x.tar <some-files>; gzip x.tar)

and the second one that I downloaded:
   ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/misc/mail/filters/procmail/procmail.tar.gz.

Shell
-----
gunzip x.tar.gz        | tar -xvf -
gunzip procmail.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

   Both work fine.

XEmacs 19.14
------------
M-x find-file x.tar.gz
   File is decoded and untarred successfully.

M-x find-file procmail.tar.gz
   No decoding, no untar - just get the binary contents.

XEmacs 19.15, 20.1, 20.2
------------------------
M-x find-file x.tar.gz
   XEmacs prompts for password. I hit RETURN.
   File is decoded and untarred successfully.

M-x find-file procmail.tar.gz
   XEmacs prompts for password. I hit RETURN.
   No decoding, no untar - just get the binary contents.


My conclusions:
1. Something changed between 19.14 and 19.15 - prompting for
   password.
2. XEmacs (all versions) somehow tries to use a password to decode
   the 2nd file, but gunzip does not.

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