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> This doesn't work with DOS batch files.  If you read it in text mode,
> the CRs get stripped away.  After that, checking it out will write it
> in binary mode, with Unix-style LFs, and you get an unusable batch
> file, because COMMAND.COM won't run it.

I suspect that, in this case, the user should tag that file as binary
so that the CRs are always preserved, no matter what.