Re: Display corruption with binary files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:05:45 GMT
> 
> When I open any binary file with Emacs in console mode (emacs -nw) the 
> display gets corrupted (the menu and parts of the mode line disappears). 
> In GUI mode it works as expected. I use GNU Emacs version 21.4.1 and 
> gnome-terminal 2.16.1 under Ubuntu 6.10.
> 
> Any clues?

Try "M-x hexl-find-file RET", it is meant for editing binary files.