[xemacs-hg @ 2001-05-23 09:59:33 by ben] xemacs.mak: call `ver' to get the exact os version and put it in the installation; suggestion from adrian. behavior-defs.el: Add scroll-in-place, jka-compr, efs, fix up some things. pop.c: Remove BROKEN_CYGWIN. etc\sample.init.el: Rewrite to be much more careful about loading features -- now it decays gracefully even in the complete absence of packages. Also avoid doing obnoxious things when loading efs. configure.in: add some support for eventually turning on file coding by default. Fix numerous places where AC_MSG_WARN had quotes around its arg, which is bad. Replace with []. Same for AC_MSG_ERROR. s\cygwin32.h, s\mingw32.h: remove support for way old beta versions of cygwin. don't put -Wno-sign-compare in the system switches; this isn't a system issue. define BROKEN_SIGIO for cygwin to get C-g support. device-msw.c: signal an error rather than crash with an unavailable network printer (from Mike Alexander). event-msw.c: cleanup headers. fix (hopefully) an error with data corruption when sending to a network connection. fileio.c: Fix evil code that attempts to handle the ~user prefix by (a) always assuming we're referencing ourselves and not even verifying the user -- hence any file with a tilde as its first char is invalid! (b) if there wasn't a slash following the filename, the pointer was set *past* the end of file and we started reading from uninitialized memory. Now we simply treat these as files, always. optionally for 21.4 (doc fix): lread.c: cambia de pas_de_lache_ici -- al minimo usa la palabra certa. frame.c: fix warnings. emacs.c, nt.c, ntproc.c, process-nt.c, realpath.c, unexnt.c: rename MAX_PATH to standard PATH_MAX. process-nt.c, realpath.c: cleanup headers. process-unix.c, sysdep.c, systime.h, syswindows.h: kill BROKEN_CYGWIN and support for way old beta versions of cygwin. sysfile.h: use _MAX_PATH (Windows) preferentially for PATH_MAX if defined. include io.h on Cygwin (we need get_osfhandle()). include sys/fcntl.h always, since we were including it in various header files anyway. unexcw.c: fix up style to conform to standard. remove duplicate definition of PERROR. buffer.c: comment change. database.c, debug.h, device-tty.c, dired-msw.c, glyphs-msw.c: header cleanups (remove places that directly include a system header file, because we have our own layer to do this more cleanly and portably); indentation fixes.

Reference:    Robert W. Brockway, Myth from the Ice Age to Mickey Mouse

    A collective definition of myth composed of many theories might be
    framed by the following paraphrase:

    Myths are stories, usually, about gods and other supernatural
    beings.  They are often stories of origins, how the world and
    everything in it came to be in illo tempore.  They are usually
    strongly structured and their meaning is only discerned by
    linguistic analysis.  Sometimes they are public dreams which, like
    private dreams, emerge from the unconscious mind.  Indeed, they
    often reveal the archetypes of the collective unconscious.  They
    are symbolic and metaphorical.  They orient people to the
    metaphysical dimension, explain the origins and nature of the
    cosmos, validate social issues, and, on the psychological plane,
    address themselves to the innermost depths of the psyche.  Some of
    them are explanatory, being prescientific attempts to interpret
    the natural world.  As such, they are usually functional and are
    the science of primitive peoples.  Often, they are enacted in
    rituals.  Religious myths are sacred histories, and distinguished
    from the profane.  But, being semiotic expressions, they are a
    "disease of language."  They are both individual and social in
    scope, but they are first and foremost stories.