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RE: Why text=binary mounts
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- Subject: RE: Why text=binary mounts
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <tiberius at braemarinc dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:25:46 -0600
> Yeah, you don't have the GNU make utility (I'll be deep in the cold, cold
> ground before I figure out how to use that one, and not for lack of
> trying).
Have you tried reading the manual?
GNU make actually comes with quite good documentation.
Yeah, my problem was trying to get automatic dependency checking combined
with lack of patience. I finally gave up and went to batch files. I
agree, the GNU make documentation is good. Maybe if I had a full Unix
setup, everything would end up working better.
Gary R. Van Sickle (tiberius@braemarinc.com)
Electrical Design Engineer
Braemar Inc.
11481 Rupp Dr.
Burnsville, MN 55337
-----Original Message-----
From: Fergus Henderson [SMTP:fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 8:56 PM
To: Gary R. Van Sickle
Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts
On 13-Jan-1998, Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com> wrote:
> Yeah, you don't have the GNU make utility (I'll be deep in the cold, cold
> ground before I figure out how to use that one, and not for lack of
> trying).
Have you tried reading the manual?
GNU make actually comes with quite good documentation.
> So what is Unix'
> advantage over MS when it comes to software development? Is it simply
that
> the GNU stuff is available free?
The advantage is the number of existing tools and the ease of
building your own tools, by combining scripts, existing tools, etc.
--
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the
pursuit
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | of excellence is a lethal habit"
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