How does Cygnus Win32 handle the extra carriager returns? (was Re: Win95 editor choice for swarm

[Paul E. Johnson]

When I read Dawn's note, I was reminded of a problem that happened to me
when I would edit files in Win95 and then try to use them in Linux.
Windows inserts the extra carriage return at the end of each line and
this CR does not show up in some Linux/Unix editors, but it is there
anyway, and programs won't compile because they keep finding the extra
CRs but the error message is totally misleading.  The unix editor Nedit
shows them perfectly well, incidentally, and you can do search/replace
on them.

I don't do MS windows, so I cant check this myself.  But I wonder if the
problem Dawn observes might be similar. Certainly it is highly likely
that MS windows inserts a bunch of hidden characters in a file and that
could be the reason it does not work.  But even if you use some nice
free windows editor like PFE you still get the CRs.  

Does Cygnus Win32 treat files it finds as though they are written on
Unix (no extra CRs) or Windoze (plenty of CRs)

pj 

Dawn Trembath wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting past running the demos using Swarm for Win95.
> 
> My first question: Is there a reason that I must use emacs (or some other
> unix editor) vs. Microsoft Word to edit my files?  I have been trying to go
> through the SimpleBug tutorial, but I cannot get 'make' to recognize the
> Makefile.  When I type 'make' while in the same directory as the SimpleCBug
> Makefile, I get
> 
> Makefile:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
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