Re: Compiling DOS source on Unix

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From: Peter Seebach
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:00

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In article <clcm-19990215-0011@plethora.net>,
Ketil Z Malde  <ketil@ii.uib.no> wrote:
>I have a bunch of sources that were written on PCs, thus with CRLF
>line termination.  I want to compile them on a Unix system, or
>specifically, with GCC on Linux, which uses LF line termination.

I'd just like to point out that one of the big sources of mysterious errors
this year in IOCCC entries was ^M's at the end of lines.

>I've been unsuccessfully toying with macro defining the problem away,
>and I've been searching for cpp options to inhibit this - I'd rather
>not mess up the original sources.  Surely, somebody must have had this
>problem before, and solved it somehow?

You have to translate the sources.  This isn't really "messing them up".
It's just part of taking a "text file" and turning it into a different
kind of "text file".

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