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DMAKE
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The original sources of dmake were available on http://dmake.wticorp.com.
This site has not been reachable for some time and the source is hosted
in the OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ cvs now. You can view
the source at: http://tools.openoffice.org/source/browse/tools/dmake.

dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
enhancements.  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

Current release notes can be found in the file:

	NEWS

Release notes for older dmake versions (4.1 and before) can be found in
the file:

	readme/release.txt