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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:10:29 -0300
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

    But would you ever use a ";" at the beginning of the command line?

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