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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:30:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mk and transitive dependencies (was: gcc not an option
	for Plan9)
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On Mon Mar 25 07:10:21 EDT 2013, begnoc@gmail.com wrote:

> What if you want to make postscript from troff files?
> Mk is a general tool and a good one. But it will never
> have intricate knowledge about the files it works on.

mk does know how to expand and archive (see ar(6)) and
tell if the source is out-of-date wrt the archive without the
presence of the intermediate.

- erik