Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:26:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: access() in DJGPP and TC/BC
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, S. M. Halloran wrote:

> I checked a TC++ v3.0 copy for access(), and indeed you're right.  
> Incredibly Borland did not define the constants with macros.  What is 
> more bizarre is that Borland indicated in its portability table that 
> access() is portable with Unix.

`access' is portable, but the macros aren't.  I guess, Borland just
wanted to be compatible with its competition, the MS C compiler.

> Is it the case that the earliest implementations of access() in Unix
> did, in fact, not use macro symbols?

Some of them do, others don't.  I don't know whether those which don't
are earlier.