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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> What is the difference between `raw-text-unix' and `binary'?  In which
>> cases should you use one or the other?
>
> I suggest to use raw-text-unix when doing I/O of random bytes that you
> don't want to be mangled.  no-conversion (binary is just its alias)
> once meant that the internal Mule representation was read and written
> to produce multibyte characters, so I suggest to avoid that to prevent
> confusion.

So you're saying that `raw-text-unix' and `binary' are completely
equivalent today, right?