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tar mode fails to open many valid files

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Message #50 received at 3410 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <p.pogonyshev <at> anakreon.net>
Cc: 3410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3410: tar mode fails to open many valid files
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:26:03 -0400

> I tried with 'emacs -Q' and get the same result:

> File poi-bin-3.5-beta5-20090219.tar.gz is large (19MB), really open? (y or n) 
> uncompressing poi-bin-3.5-beta5-20090219.tar.gz...done
> Parsing tar file...

Same thing until here.

> File mode specification error: (error "ntWorkbookBuilder.SheetRecordCollectingListener.html\" title=\"class in org.apache.poi.hssf.eventuserm has size -137265917 - corrupted")

I believe I could now reproduce it, but only if I use url-handler-mode
and download the file directly from Emacs.

I.e. it works fine with
   emacs -Q ~/tmp/poi-bin-3.5-beta5-20090219.tar.gz
but shows your problem with
   emacs -Q -f url-handler-mode; C-x C-f http://.../poi... RET


-- Stefan

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