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From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Wanted: Make for APW or ORCA/M Shell
Message-ID: <7449@claris.com>
Date: 17 Dec 88 22:15:28 GMT
References: <1130@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <1130@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>, by dnelson@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Dru Nelson):
> Could someone please post a make for ORCA/M or APW shell if a PD one
> exists?  
> 

Good luck.  I played around with writing a make for a while, but gave up in
frustration.  I think the closest you could come is something like MPW's
make, which just produces the commands to make, but doesn't execute them.

There seem to be some inherent problems (bugs) with making shell calls to
APW or ORCA/M.  I was unable to get anything consistent or usable.

The other problem is that the granularity of timestamps is one minute.
That means that it's quite possible to edit a file and not change its
modification time.

I'm looking into converting to MPW-IIgs, but things don't look real hopeful
for the conversion process.