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

[Joerg Schilling]

In article <hce5d5$t61$00$1 at news.t-online.com>,
Michael Kraemer  <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

>> Perhaps people wanted to use identical tools across several hardware 
>> and/or software platforms.
>
>I think there's no point in creating "own" versions of make and tar etc.

As mentioned already several times, smake and star are the oldest free
implementations of the related program interfaces. Star is much more powerful
than GNU tar and smake is more portable than GNU make. If you only like
one free implementaion, you may try to convince Richard Stallman to give up
the GNU reimplementations.

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