Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 'nmake'
Message-ID: <4321@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 26 May 89 12:07:55 GMT
References: <1989@internal.Apple.COM> <11570@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <11598@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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I don't have nmake. Until this discussion I never heard of it, but I don't
understand one thing... how do you maintain the state file in the face of
an arbitrary number of editors, etc, capable of being used to munge a
file without telling the state file? Or do you have to run some program to
update the state file whenever you edit a file?

At least time stamps take a deliberate effort to subvert.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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