Re: encapsulating directory operations

"David Brown" <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote in message
news:101rdli$1cb3a$2@dont-email.me...

Maybe if you actually wanted to contribute something useful to the C
world - something that other people might find useful

I'm not trying to win Miss America.

I'm trying to make C90 - or a slight variation - that e.g.
would include directory operations, hence the title,
actually "work as designed".

None of this nonsense about "real world programs
can't be written in C90".

Instead, if someone complains about IBM's monopoly, I
just want to be able to respond "well maybe you should
have written your app in C90. If you had, you could have
moved your entire application, completely unchanged,
with a simple recompile".

Previously people could have said "It's not a simple
matter of recompilation - you need to migrate the
data from EBCDIC to ASCII too".

And even further back than that, they would have said
something along the lines of "IBM files are record-based
and cannot be migrated".

I never really understood the comment about being
record-based. Took a long time to find out they were
talking about the Loch Ness Monster.

And the "-m31" (instead of -m32) option of gcc was
another Loch Ness Monster.

It took a long time to drain Loch Ness once and for all.

And bring IBM mainframes in from the cold.

BFN. Paul.