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From: "Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@peinc.com>
Subject: reading binary, non-unix file
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:47:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C835362391A2CF4F84E985842A075187014AA1AB@maui.peinet.peinc.com> (raw)


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I'm using emacs 21.1.1 on Windows 2000 SP4, and I'm having trouble
reading a file.  The file is a Dr. Watson crash dump.  Apparently it's
got some binary characters in the file, causing emacs to think it's a
Unix file, when it isn't.  When the file loads into Emacs, the mode line
at the bottom says "(Unix)", and it displays a bunch of control
character kinds of stuff.  If I just open the file in ordinary notepad,
it views fine.
 
Question 1:  How do I load this file into emacs so that it's viewable,
just like it is in notepad?  Of course I could open it in notepad, copy
the entire buffer contents, and then paste it into an emacs buffer, but
that's clunky.  I just want to be able to use ordinary find-file, or
start up emacs directly with the file.  Alternatively, if loading it
directly won't work, at least have some kind of function I can use so I
can load it and edit.
 
Question 2:  How do I prevent emacs from ever loading in a file in this
(unix) manner?  I'm never going to be loading any unix-created files on
my system, and just want them loaded just the same as if I had loaded in
notepad.
 
Please reply directly to me at MFerguson (AT) peinc (DOT) com, since I
have no access to any usenet news host and thus can't read any responses
in the newsgroups.  Thanks!

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22 18:47 Mickey Ferguson [this message]
2004-10-22 19:27 ` reading binary, non-unix file J. David Boyd
     [not found] ` <mailman.4677.1098473798.2017.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-10-22 19:57   ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25  6:40     ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-25 17:48       ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-26  1:08         ` Daniel Pittman
2004-10-26  9:05         ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-26 17:00           ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-27  7:46             ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-27 16:20               ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-27 16:39                 ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-27 16:41                 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-25 21:43       ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25 23:55         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-23  3:44 ` Daniel Pittman

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