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> From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org>
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:29:05 -0400
> 
> I'd like to see a cleverer setting of the eol_type.  If almost all of
> the lines have a particular eol style, use that instead of falling back
> to CODING_EOL_LF after a single bad line.

That kind of heuristic is bound to trip some people, I think.  It's
difficult to set a threshold that will suit everyone.  It's also
difficult for users to set such a threshold, if we give them an
option.

Can't your problem be solved with "C-x RET c dos RET" before the
command that gives you the trouble?