[7176] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.2R: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 24 05:31:57 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 91 05:31:39 EST
From: ------------------------jewell@athena.mit.edu-----------------KA2ZLZ------ <jewell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: walter-jon-williams
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.2R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
use uncompress.el on a write protected file
What's wrong:
it wouldn't uncompress it because it had to change the buffer
to do so... and it was write prot...
as a result.. it displayed an error like
File mode specification error (buffer-read-only #(buffer filename.Z<
What should have happened:
a viewable file should have appeared..
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
well.. to fix the problem.. i took the default uncompress.el
file (/usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/lisp) and modified it:
i took the line:
(shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "uncompress" t))
and surrounded it with:
(let ((buffer-read-only nil)) ... )
.. it now appears to work fine
...(see /mit/jewell/elisp/uncompress.el)
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