Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: make question
Message-ID: <7247@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Feb 88 15:46:20 GMT
References: <1017@deepthot.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1017@deepthot.UUCP> ram@deepthot.UUCP (M.V.S. Ramanath) writes:
>$! nulled, predecessor circle
>a.c: a

That's because "make" has a built-in rule for making "a" from "a.c".