Jan, Do you want to cons up a patch to this effect for 21.1.11? - vin "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Jan> He did... However he combined it with some other crap (explicit Jan> knowledge about jka-compr) from FSF emacs, and I vetoed that. A stand Jan> alone patch never appeared IMHO. My improved patch contains the Jan> 'binary part too, but that is stalled waiting for a new EFS. However Jan> it doesn't really require it so I guess it is time to apply the core Jan> part of it. Jan> So Jan> 1. package-get should use i-f-c-l Jan> 2. In 21.1.10 i-f-c-l should be made to use 'binary Jan> 3. Apply the core half of my patch to 21.2 (includes coding system Jan> change). Jan> Jan