Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199706232342.TAA26445@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970623165228.6888C-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:05:50 +0300 (IDT))
Subject: Re: Library rebuilds
Precedence: bulk


> Since there is a (very good) port of Bash, and Text-/File-/Sh-utils are 
> also available, you can relax here, I guess, and use them whenever you 
> need.

Is it still "alpha" ?  I'll accept reliance on bash if the one in
Simtel.NET works; relying on a development version isn't acceptable.

> You can replace `update' with a shell command that calls `cmp' for Unix 
> platforms.  Some GNU distributions include a script called 
> `move-if-changed' (sp?); I think GCC is one such distribution (probably 
> the original reason for writing `update', right, DJ?).

"update" is the equivalent of "move-if-changed" and was written for
porting gnu programs, yes.