On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 04:21:50 GMT 
 christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

 > Actually the best part is that if you do it with make rules, only the
 > install lines that actually get executed are printed. So if you have
 > an up-to-date system and you type make install, make returns after
 > a while having printed only the names of the directories it traverses.

I like christos's approach ...

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