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From: mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell)
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Subject: Megamax Include problem solved - dialog box bug?
Message-ID: <547@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 13:49:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: seismo.547
Posted: Thu Oct 24 13:49:54 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 04:05:50 EDT
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Well, I solved my include file problem, but I don't know what was wrong.
I dinked with the line in question to no avail (couldn't find any
magic characters, but then I didn't go to the extreme of Fedit), so
I finally just chopped out about 10 lines (5 either side of the problem)
and typed it in again.  That fixed it.  I am buying a garlic garland
to put on top of the disk drive this afternoon.

On another note, has anyone else noticed that in the Batch "exiting"
dialog, the DRIVE and EJECT buttons are backwards with respect to
SFGetfile??  It is amazing how fast you subliminally learn where
such things are and automatically go for them.  Having to continually
read the buttons is a nuisance.  On the other hand, Batch is VERY well done.
One enhancement, however:  the addition of an "out of date" function
would allow most "make" scripts to be written as simply a list of
if statements.  I propose the following:

	out_of_date(target list_of_files_target_depends_upon)

return TRUE if mdate() of any file in the list is more recent than the
mdate of the target.  This can of course be done currently, but only with
a gigantic if statement.  With out_of_date(), we can write:

	if (out_of_date(foo.c foo.h bar.h baz.h)) {
		mmcc foo.c
	}

or
	set objs = main.o sub1.o sub2.o...

	...

	if (out_of_date(a.out $objs)) {
		mmlink -o a.out $objs
	}




You get the idea.  So, is anyone at Megamax Land listening??  Again,
Batch is wonderful now, but this would make scripts so much tidier to 
write and maintain.

	-Mike O'Dell