Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/02/15/08:36:44
Mariano Alvarez Fernandez <malfer AT teleline DOT es> wrote:
> JT Williams escribió:
>>
>> There is no need to prepare special CR/LF files for DJGPP, is there?
> I think is the correct thing to do.
> Most (if not all) DJGPP packages don't worry about the text file format,
> but most DOS/Windows programs (where DJGPP live) have problems.
... which might, actually, be the one valid reason for providing CR/LF
files in the source distribution of GRX: *Other* DOS-based compilers
(Borland ones, e.g.), for which these sources should also be usable,
do not grok LF-only line ends. They'll show all kinds of curious error
messages, mainly regarding preprocessor line continuation by
backslash-newlines.
Of course, a competent DOS user would know to use 'unzip -a' to avoid
such a situation, but then, many of the potential GRX installers won't
be that competent.
> Nevertheless I can upload again the package without CRLF if people want
> it, DJ?, Eli?
The DOS line ends don't hurt anybody, so you may just as well leave
them in. After all, there's still tarball for the Unix guys, so they
probably won't bother looking at the .zip, anyway...
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