Re: RedHat 5

[Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>]

I have a RH5.0 box on my desk, and haven't noticed any serious problems with
it.  I am not a Fortran user though, so I can't comment on that.

	trailing backslashes (used to indicate continuation) don't work in gcc macros;
	the preprocessor doesn't recognize them, and just passes them on.

This sounds like problems with your end-of-line terminators.  A \ continues
the line only if it is the very last character on a line.  DOS/Win32/etc files
have different characters at the end of line than Unix, so on a Unix machine,
it will look like the \ is not the last character on the line of a DOS file.

	  shar files
	created under cygnus/b19 egcs don't run on RH5.

This may be a similar problem with eol markers.

Jim