--- code/trunk/config.in	2007/02/24 21:39:29	47
+++ code/trunk/config.in	2007/02/24 21:39:42	53
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
 written in Standard C, but there are a few non-standard things it can cope
 with, allowing it to run on SunOS4 and other "close to standard" systems.
 
-On a non-Unix system you should just copy this file into config.h and change
-the definitions of HAVE_STRERROR and HAVE_MEMMOVE to 1. Unfortunately, because
-of the way autoconf works, these cannot be made the defaults. If your system
-has bcopy() and not memmove(), change the definition of HAVE_BCOPY instead of
-HAVE_MEMMOVE. If your system has neither bcopy() nor memmove(), leave them both
-as 0; an emulation function will be used. */
+On a non-Unix system you should just copy this file into config.h, and set up
+the macros the way you need them. You should normally change the definitions of
+HAVE_STRERROR and HAVE_MEMMOVE to 1. Unfortunately, because of the way autoconf
+works, these cannot be made the defaults. If your system has bcopy() and not
+memmove(), change the definition of HAVE_BCOPY instead of HAVE_MEMMOVE. If your
+system has neither bcopy() nor memmove(), leave them both as 0; an emulation
+function will be used. */
 
 /* Define to empty if the keyword does not work. */
 
@@ -24,10 +25,23 @@
 normally be defined with the value 1 for other systems, but unfortunately we
 can't make this the default because "configure" files generated by autoconf
 will only change 0 to 1; they won't change 1 to 0 if the functions are not
-found. If HAVE_MEMMOVE is set to 1, the value of HAVE_BCOPY is not relevant. */
+found. */
 
 #define HAVE_STRERROR 0
 #define HAVE_MEMMOVE  0
+
+/* There are some non-Unix systems that don't even have bcopy(). If this macro
+is false, an emulation is used. If HAVE_MEMMOVE is set to 1, the value of
+HAVE_BCOPY is not relevant. */
+
 #define HAVE_BCOPY    0
 
+/* The value of NEWLINE determines the newline character. The default is to
+leave it up to the compiler, but some sites want to force a particular value.
+On Unix systems, "configure" can be used to override this default. */
+
+#ifndef NEWLINE
+#define NEWLINE '\n'
+#endif
+
 /* End */