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The binaries folder did once upon a time contain some executables (I went for a wander round there with the wayback machine), but either they never worked or (more likely, given past experience) the wayback machine has problems archiving binaries.

Oh, and the reason behind concatenating files is apparently so a common section can be used in the makefile. I'm guessing it's done this way because that's how it was done for the unix build (with a magic shell script that detected what headers you had and what system you're running).

Hmm, I think I did go a bit overboard there. I should really get hold of or hack a version of notepad that actually understands unix line endings, as apart from that it's a rather nice quick'n'dirty editor. I suppose there's good reasons as to why each platform (unix and derivatives, windows, and macs - I don't know about others) uses different combinations of CR and LF, but it'd have been nice if they had all agreed on one standard.

I think some of that rant stemmed from my current general anger towards computers, after having my desktop wedge itself in interesting ways (where "interesting" involves the computer refusing to shut down, and an application of the Big Red Button), as well as the previous trials in getting various things to compile. Anyway, I'll attempt to tone down the attitude somewhat. I should really inflict Linux on myself, so I get to rant about things from both points of view.