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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: TEXT mode, BINARY mode default file opening
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:39:17 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> Sent: 24 January 2005 11:54

> I never have any problems with any files, regardless which mode these
> files are.  GCC doesn't care if you use \r\n or \n as line ending.

  It does in at least one circumstance.  If you want to have a continued line,
by placing a backslash as the last character on the line, you *must* follow that
with a LF, not a CR, because the pre-processer understands an escaped LF as a
continuation, but has no idea what to do with a CR.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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