To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: O_TEXT/O_BINARY grief
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 1994 17:06:15 +0100
From:	Olly Betts <olly AT mantis DOT co DOT uk>

In message <9406201455 DOT AA23439 AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu DOT HARVARD DOT EDU>, Bob Babcock write
s:
>To be fair, the objection is a warning, not an error.  On a sun, acc also
>objects to CR, but cc and gcc do not.  I too though CR was whitespace.

There is a problem with using \ to concatenate lines with CRs lying
around.  The sequence \ CR LF doesn't join lines (or at least ANSI don't
say it has to -- see section 2.1.1.2).  This has bitten me before.

Olly

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