Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?

From: Bill Gunshannon (bill_at_cs.uofs.edu)
Date: 11/17/05 

Date: 17 Nov 2005 21:57:40 GMT

In article <q41Jd99emcPA@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
        Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <3u3mctFvamc8U1@individual.net>, bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> In article <Tur6mkjgopZr@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>>> In article <1132212678.144480.292520@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Bart Zorn" <bartzorn@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>> This seems to me not a very helpful answer. Could you elaborate a bit
>>>> why one doesn't need MAKE?
>>>
>>> Whereas yours seems to me not a very helpful answer, as you do not quote
>>> any context regarding "this". Never assume everybody else's newsreader
>>> is the same as yours.
>>
>> Whoa.... Cut him a little slack, Larry.
>>
>> He asked for a version of MAKE fro VMS and somebody reply was a simple,
>> "You don't need it." With no alternatives or explanation offered.
>
> Who replied in that fashion ?

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Subject: Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:44:03 GMT
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
From: "Jim" <j.n@nospam.com>

<wob96@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dlga0u$sbt$1@news-srv1.vanderbilt.edu...
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking a MAKE utility for openVMS Alpha 7.1 system, could someone
> please tell me where I can get it? Thanks a lot!
>
> Owen
>
In truth, you really don't need MAKE.
Jim

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>
> In what post ?
>
> That should be given for context.

Hard to give context when the reply had none. One line basicly blowing
the guy off. Not much to be gained quoting that. And, of course, the
references for the whole thread are there.

> Posts do not arrive in the same order
> at all newsreaders, and some do not arrive at all.

Any newsserver that doesn't get all the news needs a new administrator.
Order is irrelevant as long as you have all the references to rebuild the
thread, either automatically by the newsreader software or by hand if
necessary. Maybe eisner needs a real newsreader. :-)

In any case, people without anything to offer should just hit the next
button on their news reader. I would never presume to assume that
someone who asked for something didn't really need it. I don't know
about you, but I don't usually ask for things I don't need.

bill 

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