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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 13:05:33 -0500
From: davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu ("John E. Davis")
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, jcrigler AT orl DOT mmc DOT com
Subject: Re: Info port to DJGPP
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>Wouldn't it be even better if you used a dos editor that knows how to write
>files without a CR before the LF?  Like Paul G. Fox's ``vile'', which runs
>identically in Unix, Unix/X, DOS and VMS.  The only ``drawback'' is that it
>requires you to use ``vi'' keystrokes, i. e., become efficient in your

It is alos possible to configure JED to do this.  If the file is written out
as a binary file, it will contain no ^M characters at the end of a line.
I believe that JED and Freemacs are the only emacs-like editors to pass the
`must be able to edit its own binary to be an emacs-like editor' test :))).

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