Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 18:09:36 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 07:15  1/5/1998 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Also, some files do not have their carriage returns automatically
>> eliminated -- I haven't figured out why with these particular files.
>
>Please tell which files are those, or give examples.  Emacs uses a
>sophisticated logic to make this decision, but sometimes it needs help
>from the user.
I was trying to debug a Bison parser recently. When you tell Bison to be
verbose, it writes output to a file called `foo.output'. On MS-DOS, this
becomes `foo.out'. Emacs does not strip the ^M's from this file. I assume it
thinks anything ending in `.out' is binary-- a logical assumption. I don't
know how big a problem it is, since one can always use `M-x find-file-text'.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net