.TH RMROOT 1 "Commands and Applications" "17 April 1994" "Version 1.0"
.SH NAME
rmroot - remove the corresponding .root file for .a or .o files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rmroot
.I file1
[ \fIfile2\fR ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B rmroot
takes as arguments file names ending in
.B .o
or
.B .a
and deletes the corresponding
.B .root
file.
.LP
If invoked with no arguments, or invoked with file names not ending in either
.B .o
or
.BR .a ", " rmroot
will do nothing.  Where file names are mixed,
.B rmroot
will act only upon those with the proper suffixes.
.SH EXAMPLES
.B "rmroot file1.a file2.o"
will delete
.BR file1.root " and " file2.root .
.LP
.B "rmroot file3 file4.o file5.1"
will delete
.BR file4.root .
.LP
.B "rmroot"
will delete nothing.
.SH HISTORY
.B rmroot
first appeared with
.B dmake
Apple IIgs version 1.0 as a method of deleting intermediate targets produced
while building on an inference.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dmake (1)
.SH AUTHOR
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Devin Reade     glyn@cs.ualberta.ca
                gdr@myrias.ab.ca
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