Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!egret1!pln From: pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: msgs program wanted Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 16:37:29 GMT References: <625@telxon.UUCP> <17445@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <17725.Jun2607.49.5691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 24 brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >In article <17445@darkstar.ucsc.edu> jik@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: >> 4.3reno comes with an enhanced version of make, called pmake, which deals with >> directives such as ".include" and ".if" in Makefiles. The standard >> Make include files are in share/mk in the 4.3reno sources. The sources to the >> modified make are in usr.bin/make; furthermore, there are several anonymous >> ftp sites that archive it (ask archie for "pmake"). >More to the point, if you just want the sources that have always worked >under 4.3, and you don't want to bring up half of 4.3-Reno's programs, >libraries, and kernel just to compile one tiny little utility, grab the >real 4.3 sources from gatekeeper.dec.com. Blessed be whoever at DEC >decided to preserve this bastion of compatibility. >---Dan I just checked gatekeeper.dec.com, and there's no sign of source code for msgs anywhere in the ls-lR file. -- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University * * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret1.stanford.edu *