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- From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
- Subject: Re: Summary: P.D. MAKE for msdos
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.052930.19832@druid.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:29:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.060205.18285@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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- glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us (Glauber Ribeiro) writes:
- > [Re: Gnuish Make]
- > Second catch is, there is an irritating inconsistency in
- >dealing with the backslash. You normally have to use 2 backslashes
- >instead of 1 (e.g,: c:\\dos\\edit instead of c:\dos\edit). UNLESS
- >the backslash appears on a line that is an internal messydos
- >command (e.g.: "dir c:\dos\*.*" is correct). Moreover, it doesn't
-
- Have you tried using the forward slash?
-
- >recognize "cls" as a valid msdos command (use "command /c cls",
- >instead). If you can live with these booboos, you will love this
- >program.
-
- Why not create a "clear.bat" and use clear instead of cls? simpler
- and also compatible with the Unix command.
-
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