Unusual C indentation conventions

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hi, I've spent a fair amount of time trying to get emacs to do something 
reasonably close to what's required in my installation, and I find that 
it usually doesn't and I can't figure out why.  I'll manually space the 
bracket { to be where I want it, and then as soon as I start typing, 
it'll re-indent it, and even the .emacs variables that I would have 
thought would just turn off ALL syntax-directed indentation don't seem 
to do it.

All complaining aside, though:  what can I put in my .emacs to cause it 
to do this:

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The code follows an indentation convention that is a bit
unusual for C.  Opening and closing braces are on
a line by themselves and are indented at the same
level as the block they enclose:
    if (someTest)
        {
        doSomething();
        doSomethingElse();
        }
Tab stops are set to 8.  Each block of code is
indented by 4 from the previous block.  (In the
vi editor set ts=8  set sw=4)

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??


Thanks in advance.