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To: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: make clean 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:20:33 EST."
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:48:31 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:20:33 -0500
> From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
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> can someone tell me exactly what the command make clean does?

Literally, it does whatever the person who wrote the Makefile wants it
to do. 'clean' is simply a make target.

Normally 'make clean' will delete any files created by a 'make all' or
most any other 'make'.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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