Why has Digital $ in their headerfiles in ultrix?

Frederick M. Avolio avolio at decuac.dec.com
Fri Jan 25 15:22:30 AEST 1991


Oh, gee....  The blooming $ junk is in ther I imagine because some sloppy
programmer left it there.  Much s/w in Digital is developed on RISC
platforms (UNIX) and then moved to VMS.  Normally one sees conditional
compiles, etc. that contain VMSisms, but sometimes they slip through 
otherwise.  It is much easier to bend UNIX to accomodate VMS than the
other way around :-)

Fred



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