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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:08:07 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Test User <user AT ts001d22 DOT cin-oh DOT concentric DOT net>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro and Linux
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Test User wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hence the qualifier, "at most".   You are right with respect to GCC and
most other DJGPP tools, but some editors and non-DJGPP tools which are
nonetheless useful don't like Unixy linebreaks.  I concede the point,
however.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com