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>From Admin.MDP@SU-SCORE Wed Mar 17 10:51:38 1982
Mark,

    I'd like to respond to your comment that "One of the nastiest
problems in EMACS is its ability to write a text file that does not
end with a CR/LF combination," or whatever else happens to be the
standard newline representation.  Personally, I have never identified
with the card-oriented view of the world:  any free-format scanner
that dies of EOF without EOL, is diseased.  However, it does turn out
there is a trivial solution to this problem, entirely within the EMACS
philosophy.  Viz., the EMACS running right here at Stanford under your
very nose, on our Unix VAXen, bothers to notice when your file fails
to end on a line boundary, informs you of this fact, and asks you if
you still want to save the file.  As you say, "a well-designed editor
should be careful not to allow its user to lose," and the CRLF problem 
does not indict EMACS of any profound guilt in this regard.

-- Mike
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