Re: LYNX-DEV DOS bug fix

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> 
> > btw: there are a couple of imho questionable -D's in src/makefile.dos
> > (NCURSES_VERSION, NCURSES).  Can you tell me what they are propping up?
> > (I'd rather replace with a more apt symbol).
> 
> As far as I can tell, NCURSES_VERSION was added to interact with
> ALT_CHAR_SET in LYCurses.c, at the time when BOXVERT and BOXHORI were
> defined in a conflicting manner in userdefs.h and LYCurses.h. Since that
> problem was fixed some time ago, I don't see a need for ALT_CHAR_SET or
> NCURSES_VERSION in makefile.dos. The DOS version seems to compile just
> fine without either. The following is a revised patch for makefile.dos.
> 
> The NCURSES define occurs in multiple files. I am not sure how many are
> necessary for DOS with PDCurses. I don't think anyone made a specific
> define for PDCurses.
thanks - I guess we can revisit that another time.  (NCURSES_VERSION is
a worse problem since it is a predefined symbol, so it's good that it's
out of the way).

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