Portability

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From: Bryan A. Woodruff
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1989 03:55

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Here is a question directed towards those involved with ANSI C.

I have noticed a certain amount of care taken towards the "portability"
aspect of C...  When C was designed, was it not the idea to have a completely
portable language from system to system?  Do not all systems have a tree
directory or some other directory structure?  Why then are there not
portable functions for accessing the directories?  I want to write a module
that has the ability to access a directory (read, create, cd, etc...)
without having to worry about the operating system (i.e. MS-DOS, UNIX, 
(flavors), XENIX, etc)

When is C going to be completely portable, without having to worry about
#IFDEF's????

Bryan Woodruff,
Product Manager/Senior Programmer
Quality America, Inc.

(uunet!quame!bryan)

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From: bryan@quame.UUCP (Bryan A. Woodruff)
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Subject: Portability
Keywords: PORTABILITY
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Date: 9 Sep 89 03:55:02 GMT
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