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From: boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Make blues
Message-ID: <776@custom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 13:01:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: custom.776
Posted: Sat Aug 29 13:01:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:10:39 EDT
References: <79@sdeggo.UUCP> <1044@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA
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Summary: PC/TOOLS has a full MAKE as well

In article <1044@mtunb.ATT.COM>, dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes:
> In article <79@sdeggo.UUCP> dave@sdeggo.UUCP writes:
> >Help!  I'm going insane!  I have MSC 4.0 with Make 4.02 and it is not
> >executing my makefiles properly.  
> 
> Microsoft MAKE is a toy, compared with other MAKEs available.

Absolutely correct.  Microsoft seems to like reading about 10% of
the UNIX documentation and stopping.  Good examples are make,
find (somewhat like grep), more and sort.

> There are at least two good MAKEs for DOS that are remarkably close to
> UNIX MAKE.

Just to add a plug... CSS Has a full version of MAKE which is
part of our PC/TOOLS product.  Macros, multiple targets behind a
colon, etc.  Essentially, it is an implementation of the
Augmented Make under UNIX.  PC/TOOLS costs $49 and has 37 utilities,
all of which are full implementation of their UNIX 'cousins'
In the 'coming soon' category are SCCS and CSH.

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
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