Re: error in hexl-mode

[Charles Sebold]

On 15 Shevat 5761, matt@progsoc.uts.edu.au wrote:

> guys (inclusive of both sexes naturally),
>       there seems to be a bug in hexl-mode. it seems to insert a
> '0x81' about 5 chars into the file. you might want to check it
> out. attached is a file that triggers the bug.

Emacs -unibyte dealt with it appropriately, I think.  The sixth
character should be 0xBD (unless quoted-printable is screwing it up;
maybe you should try sending it in something other than text/plain to be
sure?).  I don't think it's hexl-mode that mangled it; I think it
happened when Mule tried to turn it into ISO-8859-1 or something along
those lines.  It is saving it correctly, even if it isn't representing
it correctly for you.

Anyway, you might try emacs -unibyte and see if that is what you were
after.  Or use M-x find-file-literally RET <filename> RET.
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