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to: Paul Edwards
from: Andrew Grillet
date: 1996-11-15 20:02:24
subject: watcom debugging

Hi Paul,

-=> On 11 Nov 96  22:53:24 Paul Edwards said to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=-

 > Thirdly, any ideas why I am getting the following error from nmake?
 >
 > NMAKE : fatal error U1002: syntax error : invalid macro invocation '$'
 >
 PE> The NMAKE.EXE that comes with toolkit 2.0 comes up with that
 PE> error message, but the NMAKE.EXE that comes with C600 doesn't have the
 PE> problem.  So I just swapped the order in the path.  It would be nice
 PE> to "know" that I'm using a 32-bit program though.  :-) 
BFN.  Paul. 

There are loads of versions of NMAKE and they seem to vary a lot in
what they do and how they do it. 

It would be nice to have an NMAKE substitute with a new name and decent
spec for what it is actually supposed to do. 

EG which bits are case sensitive, and what the defaults are.

Andrew
 
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