Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:19:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, John Covici wrote:

> That was it -- all the files I had trouble with, were .out files -- I
> didn't know about the find-file-text, but I will use that.

Could you please tell where did those .out files come from?  The a.out
case is relatively rare, and if a file which ends with .out has higher
probability of being a text file on DOS, I will remove .out from the
list of suffixes that automatically imply a binary file.  (Emacs will
still try to determine on the fly whether a file is a binary one.)

So: can a .out file be produced by some utility other than Bison or
the linker?