Re: catting random bytes causes character craziness

Jamie> I'm guessing that what is going on is that some particular Jamie> sequence of bytes is putting the shell into a Jamie> Be-Crazy-Unicode mode or something, Do you (or your vendor) build with Mule? [A report with M-x report-emacs-bug (with a reasonably fresh net-utils package) tends to help here, bandwidth be damned.] I've seen similar lossage with *terms (I forget which flavor), but not in XEmacs yet. It would be helpful to see exactly what output is being spewed, especially if you can provide a translation. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py