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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> This thread is about a standard preprocessor (see the subject). But as 
> someone who has done this kind of thing without a preprocessor and 
> prefer the results, I'm convinced that what's needed is a portable way 
> to tell the compiler to use the package body from the Win32 directory, 
> or from the UNIX directory, or from the VMS directory.

Amen!  Incidently, I use symbolic links.  It is a little more 
complicated that using search paths in environment variables, but I feel 
it gives me better control.

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