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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bugs in the AT&T Toolchest program 'nmake'
Summary: UNsupported software
Message-ID: <1122@vsi.COM>
Date: 23 May 89 16:21:28 GMT
References: <1640@internal.Apple.COM> <6561@ardent.UUCP> <7346@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <7346@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Is it ready to compile under 4.3BSD?  (The answer seems to be "no" for
> a lot of AT&T software.)

Hold it folks.  Remember that the Toolchest is a box of UNSUPPORTED
software.  This means that you are on your own if you want to buy it,
and it is NEVER advertised as "production" code.

Many seem to think the choice is:

	as-is code  -vs-  commercially-supported code

This is not the case, as the commercially-supported code is available
via the normal product channels.  With the Toolchest, your choice is:

	as-is code  -vs-  not available at all

If you are building a project, want a commercially-supported
make-like tool available everywhere, DON'T BUY NMAKE, ok?

Many of us believe that nmake will be a supported tool from AT&T in
Sys V Release 4.0.

     Steve

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