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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Martin Buchholz writes:

> Coding systems come in families that differ only in the way that
> end-of-line is handled.

> no-conversion       (end-of-line separator sequence is autodetected).
> no-conversion-unix  (end-of-line === LF)
> no-conversion-dos   (end-of-line === CRLF)
> no-conversion-mac   (end-of-line === CR)

> binary is really identical to no-conversion-unix.

> If your input file contains a CRLF sequence, then the input file may
> be auto-detected to be a DOS file, and the ^M will not be visible in
> the buffer if 'no-conversion is used, while it will be visible in the
> buffer if 'binary is used.

> On Unix especially, the 2 are almost identical, so it is easy to be
> imprecise and confuse the two.

Speaking of which, packages/crypt.el does not handle CRLF formatted
files at all on v20.  The `save file as plain text' option doesn't do
anything.

> Steven: this question might go into the Mule part of the FAQ.

Andreas is doing the FAQ now.  (I agree, this is a good question to
put in the FAQ).
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