Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: directory entries chopped on SCO Unix Message-ID: <27D7FC62.50E@tct.uucp> Date: 8 Mar 91 21:04:34 GMT References: <498@stephsf.stephsf.com> <1991Mar7.083046.14410@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 16 According to ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo): >My opinion is that the hacks should be removed seeing as they only apply >to a small number of operating system versions which you upgrade for >free anyway. Chip may disagree with me. I agree... _if_ the old "#ifdef M_XENIX" is replaced by the more accurate "#ifdef SYS_NDIR". That provides an out for those sites that still haven't upgraded to a dirent-capable version of Xenix. >In short, I Really Don't Know But It's All Very Annoying. What he said. Sigh. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "Most of my code is written by myself. That is why so little gets done." -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin