cleanup: remove DOT_CHAR completely

Follow-up to f9c7ba9096ec

The use of DOT_CHAR for ".ssh" was probably a mistake and is removed
now.

Pointed-out-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4230#issuecomment-522960638

Closes #4247

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/lib/curl_setup.h b/lib/curl_setup.h
index 2b3f9f2fd..13af8cdec 100644
--- a/lib/curl_setup.h
+++ b/lib/curl_setup.h
@@ -486,7 +486,6 @@
 #ifdef WIN32
 
 #  define DIR_CHAR      "\\"
-#  define DOT_CHAR      "_"
 
 #else /* WIN32 */
 
@@ -512,14 +511,6 @@
 #  endif
 
 #  define DIR_CHAR      "/"
-#  ifndef DOT_CHAR
-#    define DOT_CHAR      "."
-#  endif
-
-#  ifdef MSDOS
-#    undef DOT_CHAR
-#    define DOT_CHAR      "_"
-#  endif
 
 #  ifndef fileno /* sunos 4 have this as a macro! */
      int fileno(FILE *stream);
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 30263258f..437b5d85c 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -2860,8 +2860,7 @@ static CURLcode override_login(struct Curl_easy *data,
                           &netrc_user_changed, &netrc_passwd_changed,
                           data->set.str[STRING_NETRC_FILE]);
     if(ret > 0) {
-      infof(data, "Couldn't find host %s in the "
-            DOT_CHAR "netrc file; using defaults\n",
+      infof(data, "Couldn't find host %s in the .netrc file; using defaults\n",
             conn->host.name);
     }
     else if(ret < 0) {