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- From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: m4 Macro Preprocessor examples wtd
- Message-ID: <PINARD.92Sep1093426@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 14:34:26 GMT
- References: <v0bnrpb.jrg@netcom.com>
- Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA
- Organization: Universite' de Montre'al
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- In-Reply-To: jrg@netcom.com's message of 27 Aug 92 01: 21:20 GMT
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- In article <v0bnrpb.jrg@netcom.com> jrg@netcom.com (Parade) writes:
-
- [...] but I cannot glean a heck of a lot from [m4] man page. Could
- any kind soul please send a short example of what m4 can be made to
- do, or if there are any simple docs/refs on it [...]
-
- Hi. Let me suggest that you ftp GNU m4 from prep.ai.mit.edu, in the
- pub/gnu directory, as file m4-1.0.tar.Z. The documentation is in
- Texinfo format, the Info files should be quite readable with any
- editor, or printed as is.
-
- Also, if you feel like looking at bigger/hairier examples (and are
- familiar with Bourne shell programming), you can take a look at files
- acgeneral.m4 and acspecific.m4 from the GNU Autoconf documentation,
- which you might get as file autoconf-1.1.tar.Z from the same place.
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