Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
I have a few "antique" computers. The first Compaq, A very early Sun SPARC 1. a Mac before they offered a hard drive and others Had a VAX too, but no place to store it and some guy offered me $1,500 for the tape drive... These machines are only worth keeping if you still have the old software t

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Chris Albertson
Paul Eggert wrote: Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On a related note, does the restriction of not using shell functions in autoconf macros still remain, For Autoconf itself, we still avoid shell functions. But of course you can use shell functions in your own macros, if you don't ca