Tony Mechelynck wrote: > <snip> > This configure step also has advantages: you could say that it has the > qualities of its defaults: it allows (almost) common treatment for not > only various Linux distributions but also Unix and Unix-like systems > which have nothing to do with Linux, such as BeOS, FreeBSD, even > Mac-OS-X and VAX/VMS. The differences between all these only > approximately similar systems...<snip>
Hello, Tony! Good explanation -- but (you knew that was coming!) vax/vms is pretty unlike unix. It falls into the totally dissimilar category (ie. not unix-like). For example, paths: [this.is.a.path]filename.ext ~ /this/is/a/path/filename.ext . The Amiga is another dissimilar o/s, but I'd say its more similar to unix that vax/vms is. Anyway, to continue with Tony's point: the build & compile process is sufficiently flexible to handle totally dissimilar-to-unix operating systems such as AmigaDos and Vax/Vms. Regards, Chip Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
