Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:33:07 +0200
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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:14:27 +0000
> 
> Another one that had me stumped for a while the other day was BASH
> v2.03.  Native unix version simply refuses to run any script with CRLF
> line ends, again the error message is most unhelpful.

This particular problem is hard to fix because it is not in Bash.  On
Unix, the first line of a script is examined by the system's kernel,
which decides what program should be invoked to run the script.  The
confusing error message comes from the kernel which doesn't consider
\r a delimiter.

> Both gcc and make are fixed now - would this be due to back porting of
> changes from DJGPP?

I don't know about GCC, but in Make this was influenced by the DOS and
Windows ports.

Other programs which support DOS-style end-of-line format even when
they run on Unix and GNU/Linux systems include Emacs and the
stand-alone Info reader.