emacs 20.7 hexl gives surprising results

[John K Smith]

In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit)
 of Wed Oct 11 2000 on waewg1

I have just installed emacs-20.7, directly from a source tar ball.

I look at a file containing just the two bytes:
    0xFF  and 0x61
with 

  C-X C-F name-of-file

and then change to hexl-mode

  M-x hexl-mode

I see
-------------------------------------------------------
00000000: 81ff 61                                  ..a

which is reporting 3 bytes, the ff changing to 81ff.


I reported this as a bug yesterday (emacs 20.2), and was instructed to
upgrade to 20.7. The upgrade has not fixed the problem.

John