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diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi index 2c22c89a113..0f01958b51c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi @@ -218,29 +218,6 @@ set conversion, only end-of-line conversion. Essentially, it directs Emacs to create new files with the Unix-style convention of using newline at the end of a line. @xref{Coding Systems}. -@vindex file-name-buffer-file-type-alist -@cindex binary files, on MS-DOS/MS-Windows - Some kinds of files should not be converted at all, because their -contents are not really text. Therefore, Emacs on MS-Windows distinguishes -certain files as @dfn{binary files}. (This distinction is not part of -MS-Windows; it is made by Emacs only.) Binary files include executable -programs, compressed archives, etc. Emacs uses the file name to decide -whether to treat a file as binary: the variable -@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} defines the file-name patterns -that indicate binary files. If a file name matches one of the patterns -for binary files (those whose associations are of the type -@code{(@var{pattern} . t)}, Emacs reads and writes that file using the -@code{no-conversion} coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}) which turns -off @emph{all} coding-system conversions, not only the EOL conversion. -@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} also includes file-name patterns -for files which are known to be Windows-style text files with -carriage-return linefeed EOL format, such as @file{CONFIG.SYS}; Emacs -always writes those files with Windows-style EOLs. - - If a file that belongs to an untranslated file system matches one of -the file-name patterns in @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}, the -EOL conversion is determined by @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}. - @node Windows Files @section File Names on MS-Windows @cindex file names on MS-Windows |