# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 893889282 0
# Node ID facde3a9a8467d905dd212a6fd70330302cd8453
# Parent  96fc2ea4248557c1589fe6bf863d19318f114bea
(tar-mode-write-file): Protect from null tar-header-offset.

diff -r 96fc2ea42485 -r facde3a9a846 lisp/tar-mode.el
--- a/lisp/tar-mode.el	Wed Apr 29 22:15:59 1998 +0000
+++ b/lisp/tar-mode.el	Wed Apr 29 22:34:42 1998 +0000
@@ -1205,7 +1205,10 @@
 	;; Doing this here confuses things - the region gets left too wide!
 	;; I suppose this is run in a context where changing the buffer is bad.
 	;; (tar-pad-to-blocksize)
-	(write-region tar-header-offset (point-max) buffer-file-name nil t)
+	;; tar-header-offset turns out to be null for files fetched with W3,
+	;; at least.
+	(write-region (or tar-header-offset (point-min)) (point-max)
+		      buffer-file-name nil t)
 	(tar-clear-modification-flags)
 	(set-buffer-modified-p nil))
     (narrow-to-region 1 tar-header-offset))