Function: find-file-binary

find-file-binary is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dos-w32.el.gz.

Signature

(find-file-binary FILENAME)

Documentation

Visit file FILENAME and treat it as binary.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dos-w32.el.gz
(defun find-file-binary (filename)
  "Visit file FILENAME and treat it as binary."
  ;; FIXME: Why here rather than in files.el?
  ;; FIXME: Can't we use find-file-literally for the same purposes?
  (interactive "FFind file binary: ")
  (let ((coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion))  ;; FIXME: undecided-unix?
    (with-suppressed-warnings ((interactive-only find-file))
      (find-file filename))))