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From: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Peter's gripes
Message-ID: <5699@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 21:13:26 GMT
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In article <1990Jan31.205918.11481@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> In article <1990Jan31.174021.10174@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > In article <2YF16X9xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > >Have you ever heard of IMake?
> > Not specifically.  If it's an improved version of make, I have heard of
> > a dozen or so of them.  None of which we can confidently expect to find
> > on every machine that wants to run C News.
> This is quite a valid objection.

Here I am putting my foot in it again :-), but as I understand it, the imake
source could be legally distributed with C News.  It is a highly portable C
program, about 25K of source.  You may find it in the X11R4 distribution,
under mit/config .  A manual page is provided.  I mention all this only
because I have been uniformly happy with imake, and strongly suspect that
it would make C News much more attractive to me.

					Bart Massey
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