mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) (11/28/87)
I am lost. In the Cnews alpha release there is a program under the expire
directory called "lowest.c", which includes a header file <sys/ndir.h>.
I have absolutely NO reference to what ndir.h is supposed to contain, and
there is NO such header file on my system. Can someone please enlighten me?
I tried replacing it with <sys/dir.h> with no luck.
For reference, I am running a Tandy 6000 under XENIX 3.0.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. If ever a system NEEDED Cnews,
this one does!
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UUCP : {ihnp4,ames,sun,amdahl,lll-crg,pyramid}!ptsfa!gilsys!mc68020karl@mstar.UUCP (12/02/87)
In article <1156@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes: > > I am lost. In the Cnews alpha release there is a program under the expire >directory called "lowest.c", which includes a header file <sys/ndir.h>. > Since C-news will be used on so many different types of systems, why not use Doug Gwyn's excellent POSIX-style package distributed in volume 9 of comp.sources.unix? It makes more sense than having a lot of conditional code including <ndir.h> or <sys/dir.h> or <dir.h> (or nothing at all, if you have a Xenix system like the initial poster or a 3B1 like mine at home). Let's standardize on standards. -- Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies, Inc. ...!cbosgd!mstar!karl
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (12/03/87)
> ... In the Cnews alpha release there is a program under the expire > directory called "lowest.c", which includes a header file <sys/ndir.h>. This is for the Berkeley directory library, which is the *only* portable way to read directories (well, the only portable efficient way). You should be able to get it from comp.sources.unix archive sites if from nowhere else. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry