Re: Display corruption with binary files

[August Karlstrom]

Robert Thorpe skrev:
> August Karlstrom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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?
>
> 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.


Thanks,

August