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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 12:32:06 +0100
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On 08/06/2024 06:40, James Kuyper wrote:

> I've been programming on Unix-like operating systems for more than 30
> years, and most of that time was on Linux systems, but even I'm not
> foolish enough to make such a claim for Linux. The last few years before
> I retired I worked on Windows systems doing maintenance on huge code
> bases that were required to work on both Windows and Linux systems. They
> didn't do so by being written to use only POSIX functionality, and rely
> upon POSIX-compatible wrappers on to work on Windows systems. They
> relied upon non-POSIX functions that did different things on POSIX and
> Windows systems. The code was built quite differently on the two
> operating systems - CMake was involved. I don't know a lot of the
> details of how all of that worked, my assigned tasks kept me far away
> from that part of the code - but I was aware of the complications that
> it caused for building the software.

And that is exactly what Baby X is trying to get away from. I've 
isolated the Posix dependent functions into single function files. 
Currently there a "readirectory_posix.c" file. If someone could write 
the corresponding "readdirectory_win.c" for Windows, I can switch 
eveything from Posix to Windows. I hope.

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