hexl-mode bug

hexl-mode bug

[Davide Viti]

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

Re: hexl-mode bug

[Paul Stoeber]

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

Re: hexl-mode bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 13 Jun 2002, Davide Viti wrote:

> 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

This is a known bug in Emacs 20.x; fixed in Emacs 21.1 and later.

Thanks for reporting this, though.

Re: hexl-mode bug

[Davide Viti]

Thanx to you guys for the replies!!!!
The workaround worked for me;
still trying to get a hold of a precompiled version of Emacs 21.x for NT

Thanx again

Davide

Re: hexl-mode bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 14 Jun 2002, Davide Viti wrote:

> Thanx to you guys for the replies!!!!
> The workaround worked for me;
> still trying to get a hold of a precompiled version of Emacs 21.x for NT

You should be able to find it on ftp.gnu.org, in the gnu/windows/emacs 
directory.