Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:39:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> 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.

Yes, the a.out case is the reason for this.

> I don't know how big a problem it is, since one can always use
> `M-x find-file-text'.

`M-x find-file-text' *is* the solution when you know the file is a
text file.