From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:42:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1164368979.309609.307320@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164458563 22850 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 12:42:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 13:42:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnwrX-0002Iq-4I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:42:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnwrW-0003mO-JR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnwrI-0003l7-DK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnwrG-0003jp-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnwrF-0003jb-WA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.227] (helo=fmmailgate02.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GnwrG-0006lv-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78283CBC51B; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:42:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [87.193.40.237] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GnwrE-0007hn-00; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:42:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: August Karlstrom X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38971 Archived-At: Am 25.11.2006 um 10:30 schrieb August Karlstrom: > OK, but isn't a binary file as well as a text file really just a > sequence of arbitrary bytes? A text file, binary or multinary, does not contain control characters. Control characters are for example ASCII NUL ... INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE (U+0000...U+001F) and DELETE ... APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND (U+007F...U+009F), plus some more, that for example determine whether a text goes right-to-left or left-to- right, or up-down or ... -- Greetings Pete Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.