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Date: | Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:13:24 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles? |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Endlisnis wrote: > What if it allowed some other visible character to work as well as a TAB, > like ";"? There must be a visible character which would not break anything. I doubt if you could find such a character; most, if not all, are allowed in shell commands. ";", for example, separates multiple commands, and the DJGPP port of Make supports it even without a Unix-style shell.
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