From:	"Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP <--> Linux portability
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Yes.  But one well-known "reasonable editor" makes subtle changes to text
files.  It (1) replaces tabs with spaces on any line that gets changed, and
(2) will save files with CRLF.  Even if my files are Unix-compliant, as soon
as this editor touches them they revert to DOS-format.

> RHIDE (and any other reasonable editor) can edit Unix-style text
> files.  So run your files through DTOU, a utility supplied with DJGPP,
> and you will be able to use them on both systems.

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