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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Stevie looking for ascii.h
Message-ID: <15257@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Mar 90 14:36:25 GMT
References: <1990Mar14.002121.3636@actrix.co.nz> <2983@uudell.dell.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <2983@uudell.dell.com> jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard) writes:
>In article <1990Mar14.002121.3636@actrix.co.nz>, paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul
>Gillingwater) writes:
>> I pulled stevie off the net, but when i tried to compile under 386/ix,
>> it choked because it couldn't find:
>> ascii.h
>
>It is in fact in ISC 386/ix, in /usr/include/sys/ascii.h.  The problem is
>the file has A_NUL, A_SOH, etc.  You need to make a copy in the build
>directory, then go in and edit out all of the A_ strings from the file.

Any relation between the two is coincidental.

The UNIX/386 ascii.h defines A_HT for horizontal tab.  Stevie wants
TAB instead of HT.

Stevie also wants a CTRL('x') macro, which UNIX/386's ascii.h doesn't have.

I think the real answer is that ascii.h was just inadvertantly omitted
from this release.  It *was present* in a previous release.

However you can roll your own on UNIX/386 by editing sys/ascii.h
to create "ascii.h" as follows:

	s/A_//
	s/HT/TAB/

	#define CTRL(x) ((x) - '@')

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