[952] in Kerberos
Re: Porting Kerberos to an SYSV Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Fri May 18 20:10:12 1990
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: Riddick@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 18 May 90 16:03:00 -0400.
Date: Fri, 18 May 90 19:17:32 EDT
1. Could someone explain
the purpose of thesedefines (particularly CROSSMSDOS, BIG, and IBMPC),
and the set from which they are selected?
These sound like they were used in the des library implementation when
it ran on a PC under MSDOS. Grep'ing in src/lib/des I see a few
places where BIG and CROSSMSDOS are used. You can probably ignore these.
2. This file assumes that 'vax',
or 'sun', or 'tahoe' have been defined somewhere. These constant
identifiers don't appear to be manifest defines. Who defines one of
them and where?
If you're on a Vax the C compiler (really the preprocessor, I suppose)
defines "vax", a Sun it defines "sun", a Mac "macintosh", etc. It is
quite common.
-- Jon
