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From: stevens@inuxh.UUCP (W Stevens)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: standards, tools, history: options=?
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 16:10:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 16:10:31 1984
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Obviously, no one wants to type

cc input=foo.c output=foo define=4bsbd define=localmachine=ut-ngp -optomize library=curses library=termlib

But then no one wants to type

cc foo.c -o foo -D4bsd -Dlocalmachine=ut-ngp -O -lcurses -ltermlib

either.  That's why people use make(1).

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Scott Stevens
AT&T Consumer Products
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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