You guessed well, Paul - I was running it from the PDF directory (following your rules!)
Printdoc uses the input filename, and only changes the extension. The makefile that you sent works rather well. Thank you, thank you! As it turns out there are a few rogue word documents in the courses directory with funny filenames which I needed to filter out. A minor change fixed this. Regards, Bob Stark >Without knowing that we can't give you a complete answer. However, >using wildcard is simple enough: $(wildcard ../courses/*.doc). Given >your "printdoc" command doesn't seem to specify an output file I'll >assume that you're running make from the pdf directory. > >In that case, write your makefile something like this: > > DOCFILES := $(notdir $(wildcard ../courses/*.doc)) > > > all: $(DOCFILES:%.doc=%.pdf) > > %.pdf : ../courses/%.doc > printdoc -PRINTER="Adobe PDF" -EXITWORD=YES -OUTDIR=. -FILES=$< Regards, Bob Stark ProTech - When you're serious about Systems Management Consulting, Software, and Training for z/OS, UNIX and Internet www.protechtraining.com 800-373-9188 x150 412-445-8072 _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
