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Detection and handling of Windows (and MS-DOS) files is performed transparently. You can open Windows files on a Unix system, edit it, and save it without having to worry about the file format.
When editing a Windows style file, the mode line will indicate that it is a Windows file. On GNU/Linux, Unix and macOS systems, the string ‘(DOS)’ will appear near the left edge of the mode line; on Windows and MS-DOS, where the DOS end-of-line (EOL) format is the default, a backslash (‘\’) will appear in the mode line.