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From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Unix MAKEFILE equivalent on VMS
Message-ID: <2820@crash.cts.com>
Date: 14 Apr 88 21:28:32 GMT
References: <8804131527.AA16736@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego CA
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Summary: DECUS has it now!

(I'm beginning to think that we need a comp.os.vms.commonquestions newsgroup,
and that this should go in it...)

Yes, it's been done.  In addition to DEC's Module Management System (MMS), 
there are several make-like programs available through DECUS.  My favorite
came from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and appeared in the
[vax86a.ncar.make] directory on the Spring '86 VAX SIG Symposium Tape.  (A
later version may have appeared on one of the '87 tapes, but we don't seem
to have received them yet.)  Its functions are similar to those of Unix make
but the makefile syntax is very different; in return for this you get very
nice handling of VMS library entries (even better than MMS).  You can order
the tape from the DECUS program library, number V-SP-49, on either 1600 bpi
9-track tape or TK50.  Highly recommended!