Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:13:05 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: doug AT tcville DOT es DOT hac DOT com Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: djgppfaq.txt is a _Unix_ text file In-Reply-To: <199607221652.JAA00234@pcb2344h.es.hac.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Douglas Gleichman wrote: > I just noticed that the djgpp faq djgppfaq.txt in faq201b.zip > is a Unix text file. Some DOS editors can handle unix files > and some can't. This is done on purpose. The tools that generate the FAQ create DOS text files, but I convert them to Unix format when I package them into the ZIP file. The reason is that DOS development tools can usually handle Unix-style text files much better than Unix tools handle DOS-style files. Since many people use DJGPP on Linux boxes (or other Unix-hosted cross-development platforms), I don't want them to curse my guts. Please note that all the DJGPP text files are distributed in this way, so the FAQ is no exception. For instance, look at the header files in the include/ directory. If your editor cannot grok Unix text files, you won't be able to look at the headers or at the DJGPP library sources as well. DJGPP comes with a program called UTOD.EXE (check your bin/ subdirectory) that will convert the files to DOS format. It will accept wildcards as its command-line arguments, and will even preserve the time-stamps of the files. So if you don't want to switch to another editor (which you should IMHO), it is very simple to do the conversion. Unix conversion programs are much more cumbersome btw, they can only convert a single file at a time.