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From: sasjfp@unx.sas.com (Jeffrey L. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Skeleton include files
Summary: Why don't we have many?
Keywords: include
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.204058.17366@unx.sas.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 20:40:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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Has anyone noticed any problems with Apollo's include files.  It seems like I
have never been able to pull any sources, etc. off the net and have them
complile.  Sometimes I can 'tweek' a few things and get them to work, but most
things I cannot get to compile at all.

Gated, for instance, will not compile on Apollo (version 2.0) because a
'standard' include file <sys/mbuf.h> was decided not to be included on Apollos.
Every other system I have looked at around our company has this include file
except for Apollo.

When I confronted Apollo about this gated problem, they shrugged it off by
reminding me that gated was in domain_examples and they don't support it
anyway.  When I pressed them on the issue of include files in general, I was
told that they were sorry to hear about it, but that was about it.

I'm using bsd 4.3 include files because I want some portability with my 
programs.  Besides, I get tired of typing '_$'s all the time with Apollo calls.

Has anyone else out there had as much frustration with include files, or am I
just an idiot? ;-) 
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     Jeff Phillips             Email: sasjfp@dev.sas.com