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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: /bin/true
Message-ID: <475@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 18:32:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.475
Posted: Mon May  5 18:32:30 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 06:48:57 EDT
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Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <523@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>In article <469@ncr-sd.UUCP> greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) writes:
>>you have to put in a link on every machine in the world.
>
>No, just on the development machines containing code for that
>machine type.  In particular, "elif" won't evaluate the new
>machine-type command if an earlier instance is satisfied.

Or on any machine to which you ever send code.  The technique is
more general than just for system development......

>N.B. The same machine type should be pre#defined by CPP.

I agree.  I still think that the pre-defined symbols should live in a
(possibly implementation-specificly named) include file that is perusable
by humans; this would also be where the built-in functions would be
#defined.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA