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Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:53:06 GMT
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jsproat@io.com/spamcake/
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
Mike Walsh wrote:
There is a very good Make book available from O'Reilly & Associates,
_Managing Software Projects with Make_.  I have found that this book always
seems to have an example for something I was trying to do.  Also, if you
have access to a Unix system, the make man page tends to be pretty thorough
as well.
Oh, I dunno about O'Reilly... :-) Their stuff is spotty. It varies from
good, up through Insanely Great, all the way to YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
THIS BOOK. I wish they'd just pick a quality level and stick to it.

Yah.  Keeping my _sed & awk_ and _Programming Perl_ within reach isn't a
matter of life and death -- it's much more important than that.

But make is really a simple tool.  I wonder just how useful an entire book for
it would be.  The last one I saw quickly degenerated into Stupid Make Tricks,
which typically were no more tricky than using shell commands or spawning awk
and dc.

Cheers,
- jsproat

[f-ups set to .off-topic.geek]

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Arthur, I have POCKETS!!!



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
 
(...) MSPwM is more than just stupid Make tricks. It's a great book. Make may be a simple tool, like so many other unix tools, but you can do very very complex things with it which is why it's such a great tool... (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
 
(...) Oh, I dunno about O'Reilly... :-) Their stuff is spotty. It varies from good, up through Insanely Great, all the way to YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THIS BOOK. I wish they'd just pick a quality level and stick to it. :-) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)

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