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From: rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX)
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Subject: Re: MKS Make
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Date: 21 Apr 89 16:52:34 GMT
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In article <LFK.89Apr20131438@mbio.med.upenn.edu>, lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) writes:
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| 
| I posted a note asking about MKS Make.  I was less than clear about
| what I wanted to know, also I got the first name of author of NDMAKE
| wrong (Sorry Don Kneller! :->)
| 
| I want to know the following:
| 
| 	1) Does it work with shell so that I can have parts of a 
| 	script in may makefile, or does it use the dos exec function?

	Yes, it does work with the MKS Korn Shell.
 
| 	2) Does it do anything radically different and better than 
| 	NDMAKE.

	Don't know.  Never used NDMAKE before.
 
| 	3) Is it possible to be running the MKS ksh, then Jove
| 	then type M-x compile then have make run than have MS-C
| 	run and have enough space? Supposedly OPUS will do that.

	Don't know.  How much Memory do you have?
 
| 	4) What are some of the other features of the make?

	- Allows colons in filenames for Disk Drive designation
	- Has :: for Targets with more than one recipe
	- Very sophisticated Macro Facility
		- allows $(name) constructs within other $(name) contstructs
			CC_TURBO = tcc
			CC_MS = msc
			a.obj:
				$(CC_$(COMP)) -c ....
			allows you to specify to invoke Make as follows:
				make "COMP=MS"
			and you get the MSC compiler instead of Turbo C
		- allows user to modify the way Macros get expanded
			FILE = /usr/longpath/.../program.c
			$(FILE:b)	is	program
			$(FILE:f)	is	program.c
			$(FILE:db)	is	/usr/longpath/.../program
		- also has string substitution and tokenization
			LIST = a b c
			$(LIST:t"+"	is	a+b+c
		- allows constructs such as
			prefix{token1 token2 ...}suffix
			{main fn1 fn2}.c	is	main.c fn1.c fn2.c
	- Has text diversion capability as in
		link <@<
		....
		<

	- Comes with: ar, cc, cp, diff, echo, glob, grep, help, lc, ls, make,
		mv, nm, rm, size, strip, switch, touch, unstrip commands

	- Comes well documented with Manual of 200+ pages, with Tutorial, User,
		and Reference sections
			 
| 	5) There is some info about ar. Is the output of the ar .lib format?

	Yes, ar maintains archive libraries of Intel Object Module Format files.

| 	6) Is it worth the $149.00 as compared to OPUS?

	Don't know capabilities of OPUS.  You 'make' the call.
| 
| Frank Kolakowski 
| 

--rkl

(an Owner of MKS Make, but in no way affiliated with Mortice Kern Systems)