From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: [malfer AT teleline DOT es: Announce GRX 2.3.4] Date: 15 Feb 2001 13:24:52 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Lines: 35 Message-ID: <96glb4$m55$1@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <20010214130529 DOT A14416 AT kendall DOT sfbr DOT org> <3A8B00F4 DOT 83A33473 AT teleline DOT es> NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 982243492 22693 137.226.32.75 (15 Feb 2001 13:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Feb 2001 13:24:52 GMT Originator: broeker@ To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Mariano Alvarez Fernandez wrote: > JT Williams escribió: >> >> There is no need to prepare special CR/LF files for DJGPP, is there? > I think is the correct thing to do. > Most (if not all) DJGPP packages don't worry about the text file format, > but most DOS/Windows programs (where DJGPP live) have problems. ... which might, actually, be the one valid reason for providing CR/LF files in the source distribution of GRX: *Other* DOS-based compilers (Borland ones, e.g.), for which these sources should also be usable, do not grok LF-only line ends. They'll show all kinds of curious error messages, mainly regarding preprocessor line continuation by backslash-newlines. Of course, a competent DOS user would know to use 'unzip -a' to avoid such a situation, but then, many of the potential GRX installers won't be that competent. > Nevertheless I can upload again the package without CRLF if people want > it, DJ?, Eli? The DOS line ends don't hurt anybody, so you may just as well leave them in. After all, there's still tarball for the Unix guys, so they probably won't bother looking at the .zip, anyway... -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.