Bug in dired? (Still a bug in ediff-directories) [SOLVED dired]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tom Browder writes:

 > You're probably right.  I did find a couple of debian files, one of
 > which looks most likely is:
 > 
 >   /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
 > 
 > Is there any way to un-byte-compile it to see what's in it?

Just do C-u C-x C-f ... RET binary RET on it.  Among other things, in
the first few lines you'll find a point to the source file, which
still exists somewhere (probably /etc/emacs IIRC).  Take a few seconds
to browse through a few pages, you'll notice that there's still an
awful lot of human-readable stuff in there.  Don't bother to study it:
once you find the source it's not very useful (unless you're debugging
the byte-compiler).  But sometimes the source is corrupt or
non-existent.