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Date:	Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:53:49 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: WPS programming with Watcom (was Undeliverable Mail)

In <20051026181145-62153-8@scoug.com>, on 10/26/05
at 06:11 PM, "Harry Motin" said:

>The nomenclature that you used (below) is unfamilar to me. What does it
>mean?

What nomenclature? Do you mean you don't know what grep and xargs do?
Google is your friend.

IAC, grep is a non brain-dead version of IBM's find utility.

Xargs is a handy utility that reads the standard input and constructs and
executes command lines. Think of this as a for statement without all the
limitations of a for statement.

>>[j:\sla_dev2\wpstk]grep -lri watcom .
>>./config/config.cmd
>>./config/project.in

This says there are two files in the WPS Toolkit that contain the word
watcom.

>>[j:\sla_dev2\wpstk]grep -lri watcom . | xargs ls -l
>>-rwxrwx--- 16044 Mar 24 2004 ./config/config.cmd
>>-rw-rw---- 7994 Apr 16 2004 ./config/project.in

This says the files that contain the word watcom were last updated in
2004, which makes the files much newer than the documentation you are
assuming is correct.

I recommend you review the files to see how watcom can work with the WPS
Toolkit.

Since, it's clear from the grep results that the documentation does not
discuss how to use watcom, it's pretty obvious that the documentation has
not yet been updated. This means you are going to have to read the code.

Steven

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