Emacs on MS-DOS and on Windows NT or 95 makes a distinction between
text files and binary files. This is necessary because ordinary text
files on MS-DOS use a two character sequence between lines:
carriage-return and linefeed (CRLF). Emacs expects just a newline
character (a linefeed) between lines. When Emacs reads or writes a text
file on MS-DOS, it needs to convert the line separators. This means it
needs to know which files are text files and which are binary. It makes
this decision when visiting a file, and records the decision in the
variable buffer-file-type
for use when the file is saved.
See section MS-DOS Subprocesses, for a related feature for subprocesses.
nil
for text,
t
for binary.
nil
for text, t
for binary.
nil
for text, t
for binary, or a function to call to
compute which. If it is a function, then it is called with a single
argument (the file name) and should return t
or nil
.
nil
for text, or t
for binary.
find-file
, but treat the file as text regardless of its name.
find-file
, but treat the file as binary regardless of its
name.
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