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- From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
- Subject: Re: Is anyone using m4?
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- Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
- Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
- References: <crigler.720808909@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 23:00:00 +0100
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- In article <crigler.720808909@eola.cs.ucf.edu>, crigler@cs.ucf.edu (James Crigler) writes:
- > Okay, the subject and summary ask it all. Is m4 really used for anything,
- > or is it just a curiosity?
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- I use it to generate machine dependent makefiles from one general source
- and as macroprocessor for my transputer assembler. I love it since good
- old Minix times, cpp is too poor in its capabilities and I am curious
- about m5, which I ftp'ed today.
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- Michael
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