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From: | Thomas Dickey |
Subject: | Re: How to use BUILT_SOURCES in non-recursive, multi-directory project? |
Date: | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:57:44 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III wrote:
On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:The dirname utility originated in System III. It has evolved through the System V releases to a version that matches the requirements specified in this description in System V Release 3. 4.3 BSD and earlier versions did not include dirname.hmm - I can remember when it was a problem (around 1990), but can't recall whether it was Apollo SR9, SunOS 3 or HPUX. You did say "ancient"...
yes - for instance, Apollo supported BSD 4.3 and Systerm V environments. Scripts written for the latter could have used dirname, while the former could not. (There are still hobbyists running Apollos of course - not I). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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