On Tue, 23 May 1995 09:50:00 PDT David Greer said:
>I did a lot of work with the Lynx 2-3-7 distribution.  Unfortunately,
>I ran into various problems with the owners of the source code that
>have so far stopped the changes from getting into the master Lynx
>distribution.  I still am working on it.
 
Maybe we'd have better luck with better numbers?
 
>One thing that has held me back is a conversation that I had with
>Steve Elmer at Sigsoftvend.  What C #define should we use for
>identifying MPE/POSIX specific changes to the code?  I had been using:
>      #define _MPEXL_SOURCE
>but Steve suggested that this is not a good choice (I've forgotten
>exactly why).
 
There is _POSIX_SOURCE which pops up here and there, but doesn't quite
fit the bill since this isn't QUITE posix.
 
>We should agree on one primary define so that those of us helping the
>porting effort along use a consistent scheme.  I expect that doing
>this will have a lot of down-stream benefits as we attempt to port
>future releases of these tools.
 
We aren't too far from having BSD, but then I agree we do need a define
that is "above and beyond the call of duty" to enable MPE-specific hooks.
 
[\] Jeff