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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SAS/C lmk program
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Date: 30 Dec 90 12:37:47 GMT
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In <ben.4040@epmooch.UUCP>, ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:
>I have a target in a makefile like this:
>
>clean:
>	delete #?.o tecoc
>
>How do I escape the '#' character, so lmk does not eat the rest of the
>line as a comment? The manual says that the ~ character is the escape
>character, but
>
>clean:
>	delete ~#?.o tecoc
>
>does not work either. I hate to have to put a dependency on ARP delete,
>i.e.,
>
>clean:
>	delete *.o tecoc
>
>in my makefile, since it is for public consumption. No, I can't do a
>delete $(OFILES) or anything like that; there are 123 object modules;
>they overflow an Amiga command line. Any ideas?

Try:    delete \#?.o

Works for me (just tried it. I don't normally use lmk)

-larry

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