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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 'nmake' manual pages
Keywords: nmake
Message-ID: <10315@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 May 89 20:53:40 GMT
References: <1989@internal.Apple.COM> <11580@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <3337@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3337@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>Instead, we've got this nether-thing which seems to have all the BAD
>aspects of proprietary software with none of its advantages.

Most of the ToolChest products we've obtained have been worth far more
to us than what AT&T charged.  The advantage is that nifty software
like "sam" that everybody should have is made available; if it had to
be approved for inclusion in AT&T's grand corporate plan for commercial
software licensing first, we'd probably never be able to obtain it.

I don't know first-hand whether or not "nmake" has enough problems that
it should be withdrawn, price dropped, upgraded, or whatever.  You might
consider giving the ToolChest administrator your feedback on it.