From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
> On 29 Nov 1999, Turkey6158 wrote:
>
> > Err, couldn't find my other message to reply to, so I have
> > to make a new one. Anyway, I put in that line at the end
> > but I'm still getting that message. is djgpp.env supposed
> > to have those black rectangles instead of new lines?
>
> You are probably editing it with some editor that doesn't
> support Unix-style text files where every line ends in a
> single LF characters (as opposed to DOS-style CR/LF
> pair).  One such editor is Notepad, and it indeed shows
> the LF characters as a black rectangle.  If so, this is normal.

Mes$-DOS Editor (c:\windows\command\edit.com) can
read LF-ended text files from *n?x and saves them as CRLF-
ended DOS-style files. I used edit to fix my DJGPP.ENV.
Just don't use it for makefiles, as it will foul up your tabs.

> As for the real problem, make sure you didn't put
> any extra blanks when you edited DJGPP.ENV.

Would the CR in a CRLF be considered a blank?


Damian Yerrick

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