I've been experimenting with my latest PMX distribution from
http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~don/pmx/pmx.html . It was created and
ZIPped under Win/DOS. Using "unzip" I decompressed the file on a linux
box. After making the two usual syntax changes and renaming source.for
to pmxab.f it compiled OK under g77. But when processing the unzipped
sample .pmx files, Linux-PMX had all sorts of problems related to text
line terminations. If on the other hand I retrieve the same .pmx files
by ascii-mode FTP from a Win/DOS box, there are no such problems.
I suppose the CR-LF's are somehow surviving the DOS-ZIP/Linux-unzip
process, then confusing the Linux-compiled PMX.
I wonder why the Linux compilers (g77 and also lf95) did not suffer the
same confusion that PMX did regarding the ends of lines.
I can imagine that this behavior would irritate people who only work in
Linux, but I can't really recall anyone complaining in the past, and I
really don't relish changing PMX to try to compensate for it. Any
thoughts, discussion, suggestions?
--Don Simons
