Re: Display corruption with binary files

[Arjen Wiersma <emacs@wiersma.org>]

Hi,

>>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>> From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
>>> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:34:04 -0600
>>>
>>> On my Mac system, there is a version of emacs 21.2.1 in /usr/bin/
>>> emacs.  I have a bzip tar file.  I type:
>>>
>>> emacs foo.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> from a Mac "terminal" window (not an X11 window) and it comes up  
>>> just
>>> fine: inside the terminal.  I can move around just like I remember.
>>
>> Maybe whoever built that version of Emacs for the Mac did something
>> special to it.
>
> I get the same results with the emacs on the RS/6000 that I built  
> personally.  I simple did configure and make.  That emacs is 21.4.1.

I tried both Emacs 21.2.1 and 22.0.90.1 (2006-11-12) and they both  
escape the characters to they ^-ed versions

To illustrate, first line from /bin/ls.

\376\355\372\316^@^@^@^R^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^K^@^@^FH^@^@^@ 
\205^@^@^@^A^@^@^@8__PAGEZERO^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^P^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ 
\^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^D^@^@^@^A^@^@^BX__TEXT^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ 
^@^@^@^@^@^P^@^@^@`^@^@^@^@^@^@^@`^@^@^@^@^G^@^@^@^E^@^@^@^ 
\H^@^@^@^@__text^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@__TEXT^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^Z 
\304^@^@F\350^@^@

It does this both in terminal and gui (started with -q)

Regards,

Arjen