"Alastair J. Houghton" wrote: Agree. Questions about how to edit DOS files crop up with depressing regularity on comp.emacs.xemacs and making file-coding compulsory would be worth it for that reason alone. Jonathan. -- Jonathan Harris | jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk London, England | Jonathan.Harris(a)symbian.com

there's no good reason other than paranoia. i was planning on making it mandatory, and simply setting all coding systems to `binary' under unix. if you could create a patch like this, and test it under unix and make sure that no files, process i/o, etc. ever gets interpreted any other way than binary, then i will approve it and i think others will be ok with it. [we've already discussed this issue and came up with an agreement something like this.] "Alastair J. Houghton" wrote: -- Ben In order to save my hands, I am cutting back on my mail. I also write as succinctly as possible -- please don't be offended. If you send me mail, you _will_ get a response, but please be patient, especially for XEmacs-related mail. If you need an immediate response and it is not apparent in your message, please say so. Thanks for your understanding. See also http://www.666.com/ben/chronic-pain/