Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:53:17 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: portable equivalent to djgpp `update'
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, JT Williams wrote:

> What is a portable (if inefficient or inelegant) replacement for `update'?

`update' was born to replace the GNU-standard move-if-change shell 
script, since DJGPP didn't have a decent port of a Unixy shell back 
then.  So, if you want a Unix equivalent to `update', simply use 
move-if-change, or spill its guts into your Makefile.