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- Subject: Re: MS-DOS FST
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.060619.1901@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:06:19 GMT
- Sender: David.Empson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- References: <1992Aug14.185448.434@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug16.002842.9090@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug16.002842.9090@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug14.185448.434@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bb252@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
- > >
- > >> suffix ftype auxtype
- > >> .C $04 $0000 C language source code
- > >> .H $04 $0000 C header file
- > >
- > >Since APW C is no longer supported, Orca/C seems to be the only currently
- > >available C compiler out there...why not make C files type SRC aux 0008,
- > >as Orca/C likes them?
- >
- > Beacause they won't necessarily be Orca/C SRC file formats.
- > I'm not sure how IBMs store text files, but they could be different.
- > Specifically, with Merlin (I know it's not an IBM program), but it
- > saves text files that Teach won't let you look at, because Merlin
- > saves with the highbits on.
-
- MS-DOS text files are almost compatible with Apple IIgs ones. The
- only difference is that the lines are terminated with CR/LF instead of
- CR only. They also tend use use TAB characters a lot more. I don't
- know what the ORCA/C compiler would do with line feed characters, as it
- is written in Pascal. (APW C would ignore them.)
-
- Even if the compiler could handle the source files, it still wouldn't
- be a good idea to use the ORCA/C file type, since the source code
- might use special features of its own C compiler, or include files
- which aren't available under ORCA. #include lines might also contain
- backslash characters.
- There are quite a few potential problems, and I think it is safer to
- require the filetype to be changed manually, after the file has been
- checked for PC idiosyncracies.
- --
- David Empson
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