jon@amc.UUCP.UUCP (06/03/87)
I have just finished work on a version of UNIX make which runs on CP/M. I am going to be releasing it as a share-ware product, and would like to post it to the list. Do you have any problems with this? Or any suggestions of how to go about it?
michaelk@copper.UUCP (06/03/87)
Keywords: In article <8706022151.AA24523@amc.APPLIED-MICROSYSTEMS.uucp> jon@amc.UUCP writes: >I have just finished work on a version of UNIX make which runs on CP/M. >I am going to be releasing it as a share-ware product, and would like to >post it to the list. Do you have any problems with this? Or any suggestions >of how to go about it? There is an excellent PD non-shareware (cheaper: as in free) "make" in the SIMTEL20 archives that works rather well under CP/M 3.0, so you might want to keep your price on the low side. 8-) I have been meaning to send Keith P. my updated version that I've been using for a while but I seem to have trouble sending things to him & haven't heard from him since my last two or three mailings (this is a hint in case you're reading this Keith). My newer version isn't all that much better though...the "old" one is perfectly fine. My dancing fingers like to do the creeping-feature waltz...... The version I generated (the two above) are ones that I "strongly-ported" from the version USENET-posted by a gentleman in Australia whose name I don't recall (his name is in the bit of documentation I wrote up for the package). His version was *for* UNIX (of some flavor). One of the changes I've made is so that when "my" make is used with CCP105 (my update of CCP104), execution of the "make-proceedure" optionally will terminate upon a step-wise error (RSX's are provided in the CCP105 package to make you compiler, assembler, linker, etc cooperate). This was one of the last "features" that I debugged and got actually working. I don't think the "old version" of make will keep the "steps" out of CCP105's csh-like history mechanism, but my current version does. Anyway, if your version is for CP/M 2.2 (which my version doesn't work for), then this surely is a needed "product". If so, you might mention what file timestamping mechanism (or equivalent) you require the target system to have. I don't know about the distribution policy on the ARPA side of things, but I've seen some shareware across the USENET side (most noteably "ARC"). -- Mike Kersenbrock Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products Aloha, Oregon
bill@sigma.UUCP (WIlliam Swan) (06/04/87)
In <1088@copper.TEK.COM> michaelk@copper.UUCP (Michael D. Kersenbrock) writes: >>I have just finished work on a version of UNIX make which runs on CP/M. >>I am going to be releasing it as a share-ware product, and would like to >>post it to the list. Do you have any problems with this? Or any suggestions >>of how to go about it? >There is an excellent PD non-shareware (cheaper: as in free) "make" in the >SIMTEL20 archives that works rather well under CP/M 3.0, so you might >want to keep your price on the low side. 8-) >[...] >Anyway, if your version is for CP/M 2.2 (which my version doesn't work >for), then this surely is a needed "product". If so, you might mention >what file timestamping mechanism (or equivalent) you require the target >system to have. Michael, I don't want to diminish your efforts, but Jon's make runs on vanilla CP/M 2.2, which some (many? I don't know) of us are stuck with. I might like to get going with 3.0, to use some of its advantages but my system doesn't bankswitch, and I don't know where to even get the 3.0 manuals (which I would like to have) much less the software. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill