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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA18913
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:07:04 -0700 (MST)
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  6. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:14:27 -0800
  7. From: Jim Mehl <mehl@ihot.com>
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  9. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  10. Subject: Re: qei questions
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  12. Status: RO
  13.  
  14.   Mark is certainly right about that. And Icon does have preprocessing
  15. with conditional compilation. In fact there is a preprocessor symbol 
  16. defined called _MS_WINDOWS that would allow something like
  17.      $ifdef _MS_WINDOWS
  18.        system("nticont ...)
  19.      $else
  20.        system("icont ...)
  21.      $endif
  22. It just hasn't been used in the Icon library.
  23.   Jim Mehl
  24.  
  25. MJE wrote:
  26. > 
  27. > What the program needs is conditional compilation around the name of the
  28. > Icon compiler...such is typical of cross-platform code...don't know
  29. > whether Icon supports it.
  30. > 
  31. > Mark
  32. >
  33.  
  34.