[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In article <hc8tr5$q25$03$1 at news.t-online.com>,
> Michael Kraemer  <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>> Steven Schweda schrieb:
>>
>>>    Or each other.
>>>
>>>    Before we waste even more time on this discussion, you
>>> should know that the fellow who maintains cdrtools also wrote
>>> his own "make" program ("smake"), and his own "tar" program
>>> ("star"). 
>> I knew that before.
>> He's going to reinvent IT.
> 
> Mmm, do you like to tell this Mr. Stallman please?
> 
> star as well as smake are much older than GNU tar and GNU make ;-)
> 
> star started in 1982, GNU tar started in 1987
> smake started 1984, GNU make started in 1988
> 
> GNU tar as well as GNU make have unfixed problems (most of them since more than 
> 10 years) and the maintainers are not responsive with fixes. There is e.g. a 
> problem with GNU tar that causes GNU tar to be even unable to unpack own 
> archives under some conditions that still has not been completely fixed.

Use the power of GPL and fork them.

Arne