Re: Stevie looking for ascii.h

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From: James R. Howard
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 21:57

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In article <1990Mar14.002121.3636@actrix.co.nz>, paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul
Gillingwater) writes:
> Hi,
> I pulled stevie off the net, but when i tried to compile under 386/ix,
> it choked because it couldn't find:
> 
> ascii.h
> 
> Now I could probably guess what's in there (#defines for NUL, SOH etc.)
> but I was wondering why it was left out?  Is this a Xenixism, or a
> BSDism?

It is in fact in ISC 386/ix, in /usr/include/sys/ascii.h.  The problem is
the file has A_NUL, A_SOH, etc.  You need to make a copy in the build
directory, then go in and edit out all of the A_ strings from the file.


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