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A random guess: try

	(setq default-enable-multibyte-characters nil)

Or update to Emacs 21.2.1 where it doesn't happen.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote:
> try and create a 1-byte binary file with the following command
> 
> 	printf "\xff" > log
> 
> and you'll obviously get the wanted file
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 VitiD    5               1 Jun 13 17:13 log
> 
> now visit it using the hexl-mode and...
> 
> 00000000: 81ff                                     ..
> 
> It happens both under linux and under windows NT with Emacs 20.7.1
> and seems to happen with values >= 0xa0