Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:00:02 +0900
> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
> 
>  > And it does not work with cygwin grep either. They think it is a
>  > binary file (even though I changed the line delimiter to unix
>  > style).
> 
> The EOL delimiter is not a problem.

Certainly not.  Grep says a file is binary only if it contains null
bytes.