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

[Joerg Schilling]

In article <4ae8de5e$0$276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

>> 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.

It is easier to work on a clean implementation that to work on implementations 
that have many known problems because if the source structure.

I am sure you prefer to use your own shoes instead of trying to make other 
peoples shoes fit to you.

BTW: why did people create GNU make and GNU tar although smake and star
did exist before?

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