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- From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
- Subject: Re: Is anyone using m4?
- In-Reply-To: crigler@cs.ucf.edu's message of Tue, 3 Nov 1992 16: 41:49 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:08:22 GMT
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- In article <crigler.720808909@eola.cs.ucf.edu> crigler@cs.ucf.edu (James Crigler) writes:
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- Is m4 really used for anything, or is it just a curiosity?
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- For one, I am certainly using it to front-end the input of many
- programs I wrote and who read an input syntax. It adds a lot of
- flexibility to them for my users. Deviantly, I routinely use it when
- I have a big deal of substitutions to make on text files. m4 is often
- used installing big software. Some sendmail's use it, in particular.
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- For an instructive example of usage, look at:
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- @prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/autoconf-1.2.tar.Z
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- This is pure m4, used to construct configurators for GNU products.
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