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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:29:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: hybrid text/binary mount
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.10004261043050.111245-100000@cystine.cs.unc.edu>; from juliano@cs.unc.edu on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:53:56AM -0400

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:53:56AM -0400, Jeffrey Juliano wrote:
>> > I think that most output is done in more than one character at a time
>> > mode.
>> 
>> Yeah, but consider, for example, raw PBM files.  The first few lines
>> are text lines, but after that the data is binary.  One could easily
>
>FYI, emacs has done automatic UNIX/DOS/MAC detection for a while now.  I
>use NTemacs all the time, and I don't think it's ever guessed wrong for
>me.  I just tested on a raw PBM file, and it got it right.

I assume that emacs can do that because it probably reads in the whole
file and can guess much more precisely.  'vim' also seems to be pretty
good at guessing for the same reason.  I have had situations where 'vim'
fails to guess correctly, though.

cgf