Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5 Message-ID: <1153@unocss.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 89 15:33:19 GMT References: <1571@mtunb.ATT.COM> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Lines: 17 From article <1571@mtunb.ATT.COM>, by dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman): > Because UNIX(R) and MS-DOS can reside on the same machine. Today's > 386 boxes can run both easily. If I have text files on such a box, > I'd REALLY like to be able to process them under each OS. No transporting ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Can **IX read the DOS format text files? Can the **IX compiler handle something with CR/LF's at the end of each line? (These aren't flames; I honestly don't know how PC-based Unix clones work. Our mainframe Ultrix C compiler will honk and wheeze if I forget to set the -a option on rz.) Guess it's a matter of which environment is more important to you. If you consider **IX to be your 'main' system, and MS-DOS to be a slave, then I can understand your reasoning. But it would still be unfair to expect MS- DOS to cater to Unix's whims, while not expecting the Unix to bow to MS-DOS (if that is the case). --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska