Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:30:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Marslett <charles DOT marslett AT vlsi DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: auto-binary-mode?
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Charles Marslett wrote:

> This does bring up the issue of output files, though.  How are they
> handled?
> Do we wait for a certain number of bytes to be written, then decide if
> we should have been translating 0A's to 0D0As?  That sounds sort of messy
> to me.

I don't like the idea of general-purpose library functions that employ
guesswork where the guess could be wrong.  IMHO, heuristics may be
okay in interactive programs, since you can let the user to override
it or repair the damage of a wrong guess (see the example of MULE
features in Emacs 20), but it could yield terrible results in a
library function.