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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news: file ownership and running build 47386 times
Message-ID: <1658@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:06:09 GMT
References: <3054@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Nov20.120629.28412@algor2.algorists.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1989Nov20.120629.28412@algor2.algorists.com> jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:

| I have suggested to Henry by Email that he create an editable
| configuration file, build.out, so the process looks something like:
|      build --> build.out --> doit.*, again.root --> ...

  Some other programs build a file of defaults, so that when rebuilding
the previous *user input* is the default. This is reasonably convenient,
although it takes a bit of though for programs which have some input as
multiline data.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon