From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:04:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1164368979.309609.307320@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164452716 9300 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 11:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 12:05:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnvLM-0003Hh-Nf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:05:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnvLM-0008Ug-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnvL5-0008TR-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:04:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnvL3-0008Rs-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnvL3-0008Rn-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GnvL1-0002pj-TY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-232-240.inter.net.il [83.130.232.240]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BCB48454 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:04:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from August Karlstrom on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:30:16 GMT) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38968 Archived-At: > From: August Karlstrom > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:30:16 GMT > > > > Bits of the binary file being interpreted at terminal control > > characters is a likely culprit. > > OK, but isn't a binary file as well as a text file really just a > sequence of arbitrary bytes? > > > If that is the problem then Emacs should not send such characters to > > the terminal. It may be a terminal problem though. I'd report it as > > an Emacs bug with that caveat. > > Eli Zaretskii's answer seems to indicate that this is a known problem. Yes, it's a known problem that the Unix terminal interprets certain sequences of characters as commands. I'm not sure Emacs can do anything to solve this, but suggestions are welcome.