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From: DOUG@YSUB.BITNET (Doug Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Make
Message-ID: <90063.195542DOUG@YSUB.BITNET>
Date: 5 Mar 90 00:55:42 GMT
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In article <2624@wyse.wyse.com>, benefiel@wyse.wyse.com (Daniel Benefiel xtmp
user id dept234) says:
>
>I'm getting the error message "Unable to execute command: DEL XPATCH.EXE"
>while running MAKE on the following (partial make file).  I have no
>problem executing the DEL command myself from DOS (the file exists & has
>rw attributes).  Any ideas on what MAKE's problem is?
>
The book says 'del' should work.  It will invoke 'command.com' to run
the delete command, internally creating 'command /c del ......'

As far as not accepting 'DEL', perhaps that's the unix roots of
'make' coming through.  It doesn't make sense in a DOS world, though.

TLINK (as opposed to LINK) with the '/t' option will create a .com
file automatically, at least if you use TLINK that comes w/TC 2.0 and
TASM 1.0 (p. 223 in the Turbo Assembler reference manual).

Doug Sewell (DOUG@YSUB.BITNET/YSU.EDU), Tech Support, Computer Center,
Youngstown State University, Youngstown,  OH 44555
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