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- Q M A K E . D O C 07/02/88
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- DESCRIPTION
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- The accompanying file, QMAKE.EXE is an intermediate step
- between Sammy Mitchell's excellent editor QEdit and the
- MAKE.EXE utility that's supplied by many manufacturers.
- It will allow you to press a key while editing a program
- source file, and automatically invoke your MAKE utility
- with that current filename (minus its extension) as the
- argument for MAKE.
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- USAGE
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- As written, QMAKE expects your makefile to be named the
- same as the file you are editing, but with no extension.
- This is a convention used by many programmers.
- If the file you are editing IS the makefile, QMAKE
- is smart enough to realize that there is no extension,
- and it will invoke MAKE using the current filename.
- Thus, in a program that's developed from multiple source
- files, you can (also) load the makefile into QEdit and
- rebuild the program using your macro keypress, no matter
- what your naming convention for the multiple files.
- You'll want to install a macro into QEdit that will
- call upon QMAKE to build your programs. I assigned the
- macro to <Alt-K>, an unused keybinding in the original
- QCONFIG.DAT file. It is somewhat mnemonic, if you
- consider make to be spelled maKe. An example of such a
- macro looks like this, and must be one line in your
- QCONFIG.DAT file, though it is split into three here
- for readability:
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- @k macro_begin save_file
- dos 'QMAKE C:\BOUND\MAKE.EXE '
- current_filename return
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- If you prefer to assign to a different key, change the @k
- to any other unused key in your QCONFIG.DAT file.
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- COPYRIGHT
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- Neither this program nor its documentation nor source
- file is copyrighted. It is released to the public domain
- for all to use. But please be good enough to distribute
- the original files in the original archive. If you
- improve upon this program and distribute your files, name
- them something else and give credit to previous author(s)
- for any sections that are not yours.
- Source code is included in QMAKE.C, written for
- Microsoft C v5.1, but it is really quite nonspecific. If
- you need to modify the way this program works, you should
- be able to do so and recompile with nearly any C system.
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- Jerry Houston - COLLEGE CORNER BBS - Bellevue, WA - (206) 643-0804
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