Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:02:13 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:30:20 +1300
> 
> Warning: these questions may appear slightly OT.

They aren't: portability between DJGPP and Unix systems is perfectly
on-topic in this news group.

> 2. Backslash-newlines, which i use occassionally for the more complicated
> #defines, aren't recognised by cpp, apparently because of the CRLF problem.
> Is there a simple way I can get around this?  I'd like to be able to compile
> the same sources that I edit with RHIDE in dos.

RHIDE (and any other reasonable editor) can edit Unix-style text
files.  So run your files through DTOU, a utility supplied with DJGPP,
and you will be able to use them on both systems.