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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:12:52 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Dennis Yelle <dennis51 AT jps DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Dennis Yelle wrote:

> By the way, I believe that Microsoft make has always accepted
> one or more spaces as a synonym for TAB at the beginning
> of a line in a makefile.

That's true; but then Microsoft's make never claimed they are 
Posix-compliant.

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