Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:35:53 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> 
> Yes.  But one well-known "reasonable editor" makes subtle changes to text
> files.  It (1) replaces tabs with spaces on any line that gets changed, and
> (2) will save files with CRLF.

You can switch to another editor.  Emacs is one possibility.

> Even if my files are Unix-compliant, as soon
> as this editor touches them they revert to DOS-format.

You can use dtou again to convert them back, if you cannot switch to
another editor, for some reason.