Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:07:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Jason Green wrote:

> IMHO a decent editor will leave the line-endings intact and will give
> the user the option to convert them.

Emacs does all that.

> > > Another thing to watch out for is make, the *nix version only accepts
> > > NL line ends and will give some cryptic error messages if it
> > > encounters a CR.
> > 
> > But that doesn't have any relevance to DJGPP make. It will take either
> > Unix or DOS style line endings, without any noticeable difference.
> 
> It is something that DJGPP users who want to freely move between DOS
> and *nix need to be aware of.

Not anymore, at least if they use GNU Make on the Unix side.  The
latest version 3.78.1 of GNU Make supports DOS-style CR-LF EOL format
on Unix as well.