From: covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com (John Covici)
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Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 16:25:41 -0500
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on Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:39:25 +0200 (IST) Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> in
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980106103901 DOT 2159G-100000 AT is> wrote:
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>On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
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>> 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.


That was it -- all the files I had trouble with, were .out files -- I
didn't know about the find-file-text, but I will use that.

Thanks.


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