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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: text editor ok for binary files want
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 10:25:45 EST
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> 	I believe many versions of EMACS for the VAX also work acceptably
> for editing binary files.

After I got over puking at the idea of editing binary files, I decided
to let people know that the CCA emacs for 4.2 BSD will handle binary files
fine.  You can insert 8-bit bytes by using "Quoted Meta Insert".  God knows
why you would want to, though.
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