From: user AT ts001d22 DOT cin-oh DOT concentric DOT net (Test User)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro and Linux
Date: 27 Sep 1998 05:28:55 PDT
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In article <3603067E DOT D62A487 AT cartsys DOT com>, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>ElvenForst wrote:

>Sure; a source is a source.  You'll have to write it portably enough, of
>course, but DJGPP is Unix-like enough that few things will need to
>change.  Other than that, a pass through `utod', at most.  You can even
>cross-compile your DOS exe's from Linux!

That isn't necessary with DJGPP. In fact, many of the tools commonly
used with DJGPP (some versions of RHIDE, for example) save their
text files in the UNIX format. GCC will compile UNIX text files just
fine with no conversion.

>-- 
>
>Nate Eldredge
>nate AT cartsys DOT com