rkive under SCO 386

[Kent Landfield]

In article <379 at ubbs-nh.MV.COM> noel at ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel B. Del More  Nashua) writes:
>I am experiancing a problem at this moment in time, ie.  a compile
>failure reporting the lack of /usr/include/dirent.h  
>
>I would truely appreciate hearing from anyone who has this program
>compiled and operating under SCO Xenix 386 2.3.1.
>

It is my fault that I caused people extra work here. I am sorry that I 
didn't make it clear in the README about the directory access routines 
and my feelings on the subject but I am a RPDCM (Rabid POSIX Directory 
Compliant Maniac). :-) I do not want to make the code ugly with ifdefs 
for the ndir.h, dir.h sys/dir.h etc. Since *all* the major vendors *say* 
they are becoming POSIX compliant in their next release (whenever that 
is) I felt that I should help them along and keep my code as clean as 
possible. :-)

If you do not have access to Doug Gwyn's Directory library which was
posted to c.s.u a while back, get them.  These are extremely useful
whether you are using rkive or not. In the mean time, one quick 
way to get around the directory stuff (if you don't want to use the 
POSIX directory routines) is to create a new include file 
"/usr/include/dirent.h" that contains something like the following:

/* /usr/include/dirent.h */
#include <sys/dir.h>
#define dirent direct

Otherwise you could go through all the source files and change dirent.h
to ndir.h and all struct dirent to struct direct... Naaah. :-) :-)

			-Kent+
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