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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question on RCS and GNU-make
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Date: 25 Oct 90 13:42:23 GMT
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In <652@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> amoffat@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Andrew Moffat) writes:
> The RCS doco states: "MAKE has been extended with an auto-checkout
> feature for RCS".  Is this referring to GNU-make, or some other
> version of make?
The RCS docs are refering to a Purdue-modified version of make.  Similar work
was done at CMU.

I believe GNU make has something similar, and with pattern rules you can get
something pretty close with most modern make's -- SystemV augmented make, SunPRO
make, nmake, mk, etc., etc...
	/r$
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