Re: lynx-dev Lynx Litter on VMS

[dickey]

> > > +     StrAllocCopy(VMScookie_file, cookie_file);  
> > > +     StrAllocCat(VMScookie_file, ";1");  
> > > +     rename(cookie_file, VMScookie_file);   
> > > + #endif /* VMS */  
> >  
> > The last couple of lines are redundant and error-prone.  If the remove loop 
> > fails due to permissions, you'll end up renaming the most recent file to a 
> > lower version than the possible older file.  So I'd simply omit that. 
> >  
> > (I'll add the first part to pre.10, since I don't see anything else 
> > wrong) 
>  
> Ah, okay. That sounds good to me.  
>  
> In that case you might want to have a look at the similar code for the  
> .lynxrc file, I grabbed it and barely modified it. 

I did that - if I didn't miss a #include somewhere, it should work properly.
(I moved the logic into a new function HTVMS_purge, added a HTVMS_rename,
and removed some of the clutter)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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