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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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