Subject: bug#7001: should `byte-compile-from-buffer' evaluate `binary-overwrite-mode' explicitly?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:04:46 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:11:13 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], MON KEY <[email-masked]>
> 
> > Most likely this line can be removed from bytecomp.el.
> 
> The comments in bytecomp.el say this is needed for DOS.

That comment is obsolete.  All file I/O works in binary mode on DOS
and Windows since at least 15 years ago.