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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report
From: |
Benjamin C. W. Sittler |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:36:16 -0700 (MST) |
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Much as we'd like to think otherwise, the world does not revolve about
> > UNIX ;). Under VMS, for example, people expect logicals to be expanded in
> > filenames, and Windows NT users expect environment variable references
> > like %windir% to work under some circumstances.
>
> Good and...
>
> > VMS already has lots of native-semantics code (thanks Fote!) so maybe we
> > should be consistently inconsistent.
>
> I think so.
>
> > I apologize for the excessive length and wordiness of this post, but I
> > suspect some of the UNIX users may not understand just how much the code
> > has to change for other OS families.
>
> Very little. You are talking about having an OS specific
>
> char *out=OS_TranslatePath(const char *in);
> if(out==NULL)
> {
> error=OS_LastErrorText();
> }
> else
> {
> f=fopen(out,"r");
> free(out);
> }
>
> Yes ?
Yes, but everywhere that currently has #ifdef VMS or the like will have to
change. I do like that method, though.
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, (continued)
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Alan Cox, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Wayne Buttles, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Alan Cox, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Al Gilman, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Benjamin C. W. Sittler, 1997/03/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, Alan Cox, 1997/03/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report,
Benjamin C. W. Sittler <=
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx W32 bug report, David Combs, 1997/03/08