Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Why use `cp' and `rm' when _WINDOWS defined?

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
>  
> > > What I had envisioned was that DOSPATH would completely go away.  All of  
> > > them would be renamed, even if only slightly, so that we were sure when 
> > > it  
> > > all was complete.  During this transition, I suspect we will need ~one~  
> > > #ifdef DOSPATH to surround all the new defines.  *I am hoping on some  
> > > input as to where that could go.*  
> > good - I've got some ideas for cleaning up the ifdef's (so that most of 
> > those places where we have VMS or DOS or Unix for wrapper functions really 
> > should be just one function that's ifdef'd in a header). 
>  
> Would that stuff be put in userdefs.h?  That is the first place I 
> thought of to consolodate defines. 
no.  userdefs.h is overfull.

Look at HTDOS.h and HTVMSUtils.h -- if we make a header that includes
both, and defines a macro or generic name (such as HTSYS_wwwName) to
replace the system-specific DOS or VMS names, we can clean up a lot of
ifdef's.  (There's other, less obvious, things that can be combined in
a similar manner).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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