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From: Arjen Wiersma <emacs@wiersma.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:19:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D153CCF1-62EF-4925-98FF-45013D215D68@wiersma.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16D0F7A9-0BEF-4513-BD37-A76CA67F0952@easesoftware.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-26  9:19 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
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 [this message]
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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