Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 16:51:24 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: geno AT nevada DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Line terms; UNIX v. DOS; opinions wanted (was: Info port...)
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> I want to weigh in on the line terminators issue.

I just checked my djgpp include directory and found that 9 of 58 .h files had
linefeed delimiters, the rest had CR/LF.  Nothing in djgpp seems to care, but
a grep-like DOS program I use does make an ugly display without the CR's.
Supposing I wanted to submit an update to fix this, what would the diff file
look like... ;-)

> I can't figure out why DOS would have changed a pre-existing option character
> - and directory character /

I think DOS followed the CP/M convention.  Also, DOS 1 did not support
subdirectories.

Finally, is there an easy way to control the line delimiter used by oemacs?