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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:04:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ulklz6b3h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWU9h.24263$E02.9814@newsb.telia.net> (message from August Karlstrom on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:30:16 GMT)

> From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:30:16 GMT
> > 
> > Bits of the binary file being interpreted at terminal control
> > characters is a likely culprit.
> 
> OK, but isn't a binary file as well as a text file really just a 
> sequence of arbitrary bytes?
> 
> > If that is the problem then Emacs should not send such characters to
> > the terminal.  It may be a terminal problem though.  I'd report it as
> > an Emacs bug with that caveat.
> 
> Eli Zaretskii's answer seems to indicate that this is a known problem.

Yes, it's a known problem that the Unix terminal interprets certain
sequences of characters as commands.  I'm not sure Emacs can do
anything to solve this, but suggestions are welcome.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-25 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23 22:05 Display corruption with binary files August Karlstrom
2006-11-24 11:49 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 10:30   ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 11:04     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-11-25 16:38       ` Perry Smith
2006-11-25 21:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26  0:34           ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26  4:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26  4:55               ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26  9:19                 ` Arjen Wiersma
2006-11-26 20:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1101.1164472694.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-26 13:30         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 12:42     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1089.1164458537.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 13:16       ` August Karlstrom
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1086.1164452697.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-27 20:50       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-24 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1054.1164416983.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 10:30   ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 10:42     ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 13:15       ` Eli Zaretskii

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