Re: lynx-dev EBCDIC again

[dickey]

> 
> 990224 pg wrote:  
> > 990224 Philip Webb said: 
> >> why does your `boogiewoogie' line not act on OS390 ? 
> > If the character set appears to be EBCDIC, it's skipped by the "#if" in: 
> >     #if '0'!=240 
> >     #error "Character set is not EBCDIC" 
> >           make an error  <<=== 
> >     #endif 
>  
> but why does inserting the marked line make a difference: 
> was it simply a programming error to omit such a line previously? 
> or was the previous  #error  line supposed to do the job, 
> but IRIX 5.3 for some reason didn't recognise it? 

the "#error" line isn't recognized by some compilers.  (I've already changed
that in my pending patch).

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