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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: make (go get it)
Message-ID: <175@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 13:50:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 13:50:27 1984
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[brain, brain, I need a brain ...]

Won't this do it?

	source.c: /magic/source.c
		cp /magic/source.c source.c
	source.o: source.c

Of course, if the source isn't a file (e.g., it must be tarred), you
could try a kludge like this:

	source.c: /	# if source.c exists, it will be newer than /
		tar x source.c

Hope this helps.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel