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Re: indent.exe strangeness

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:11:34PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Am 2001-11-15 um 20:21 schriebst du:
>>automode.o should take any file and create a file with only LF line
>>endings.  This will be correctly interpreted by just about every tool
>>except older versions of notepad.exe.
>
>But every file that is in textmode with CR/LF will be converted to
>binmode lineendings then?

...and...?  You're rephrasing what I said above.  What are you not
understanding?  A file that *possibly* used to have lines ending
with \r\n will be converted to using \n instead.

We've had many discussions about this in the past and it seems like
this is the best compromise solution.

cgf

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