Updated version of 'browse'

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Fri Dec 22 17:23:31 AEST 1989


In article <7378 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Thanks to the feedback from the original posting of browse, and the loan
>of some hacking time on a Sun-3, I've fixed the BSD directory routines
>and simplified some of the code. The Makefile should be modified to
>indicate whether you're in a BSD or USG universe. Otherwise it should
>work out of the box.

I tried running it straight out of the box, and it failed miserably.
It seems SCO XENIX at 2.2.3 needs to have M_XENIX undefined for this
to work.

My fix was to add -UM_XENIX to the C flags entry in the Makefile.
After that minor change the code worked out of the box ;-)
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