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Subject: Re: Make for IBM-PC
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 19:41:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 19:41:50 1984
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>From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Tue Jul  3 09:12:49 1984
>I have also saved the (indeed *much* simplified) make, and converted it
>to Lattice C.  Since I have no assembler, and have not been able to find out
>how to call DOS EXEC from Lattice C (2.04, that is), it writes the commands
>to be executed onto a batch file, which must be called later.  But it
>works.  If I get some requests, I am willing to post it.
>	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam

With DOS 2.x you can use a pipe to send these batch commands to
COMMAND.COM.  Specifically, you can say:

make ... | command.com

Just make sure the last line make produces is EXIT.  EXIT causes
a subordinate DOS to terminate, but not the main one.

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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