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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Help: compiling PC Simulator
Message-ID: <9969@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 16 May 91 09:25:01 GMT
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In article <53644@nigel.ee.udel.edu> EOAHMAD%NTIVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>I tried compiling PC simulator on an Ultrix OS on DEC MIPS R3000 workstations.
>There are missing files in the include/sys directories,
>fcntl.h, stream.h,stropts.h
>
>Why can't C compilers use the same include files

I totally agree.  I didn't write the part that uses <stream.h> or <stropts.h>.
I don't even know what they do.

<fcntl.h> is POSIX, and is thus legal.  It is precisely this sort of stuff
that makes me want to move toward POSIX.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)