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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:27:19 -0700
Subject: Re: 3.2 can't extract tarfile produced by 2.7
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're correct that it makes no sense to open a tar file in binary
> mode,

Of course that should have read: "it makes no sense to open a tar file
in text mode."