Re: lynx-dev Lynx Litter on VMS

[dickey]

> +  
> + #ifdef VMS 
> +     /* 
> +      *  Get rid of any copies of the cookie file that VMS creates. 
> +      */ 
> +  
> +     StrAllocCopy(VMScookie_file, cookie_file); 
> +     StrAllocCat(VMScookie_file, ";-1"); 
> +  
> +     while (remove(VMScookie_file) == 0) ; 
> +         /* 
> +          *  Reset version number. 
> +          */ 
> +     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)

> +  
>   } 
>   #endif 
>    
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