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From: Davide Viti <davide.viti@icn.siemens.it>
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Date: 13 Jun 2002 17:50:01 +0200
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Hi,
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

Hope this helps

Davide