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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Non-standard character replace
Message-ID: <640020@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:53:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.152953.24777@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> What is the technique in EMACS to change a single character that
> cannot normally be typed on the keyboard. In my case I have a text
> file that has line feed characters where it should have CR-LF
> instead, and EMACS puts it all on one line!
>	Rob

You are not going to get a meaningful answer without more information.
What variety of emacs are you running?  What version?  What host?

Just at a guess I suspect you are running some kind of microemacs
under MessyDos.  Is that so?
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