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2 | About contrib:mac-mpw: | |
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5 | This directory contains all of the utilities and makefile source | |
6 | to build the LIBTIFF library and tools from the MPW Shell. The | |
7 | file BUILD.mpw in this directory is an executable script | |
8 | which uses all of these files to create the MPW makefiles and | |
9 | run them. | |
10 | ||
11 | The <file>.make files are not MPW makefiles as such, | |
12 | but are when run through the "mactrans" program, which turns | |
13 | the ascii "%nn" metacharacters into the standard weird MPW | |
14 | make characters. | |
15 | ||
16 | This translation trick is necessary to protect the files when | |
17 | they are put into unix tarfiles, which tend to mangle the | |
18 | special characters. | |
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20 | --Niles Ritter (ndr@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov) |