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+DMAKE 4.1 [http://dmake.wticorp.com/]
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+The dmake home page can be found at:
+
+ http://dmake.wticorp.com/
+
+Visit there for the latest in dmake related information.
+
+dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
+enhancements (See the WWW page). A short summary of the more important
+features follows:
+
+ . support for portable makefiles
+ . portable accross many platforms
+ . significantly enhanced macro facilities
+ . sophisticated inference algorithm supporting transitive closure
+ over the inference graph
+ . support for traversing the file sytem both during making of targets
+ and during inference
+ . %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used for inferring
+ prerequisites
+ . conditional macros
+ . local rule macro variables
+ . proper support for libraries
+ . parallel making of targets on architectures that support it
+ . attributed targets
+ . text diversions
+ . group recipes
+ . swapping itself to DISK under MSDOS
+ . supports MKS extended argument passing convention
+ . directory caching
+ . highly configurable
+
+Additional information pertaining to installation can be found in either the
+
+ gold/ - sub-folder for the Dmake Gold release
+ public/ - sub-folder for the Damke public release
+
+Release notes for this release of dmake can be found in the file
+
+ release.txt
+