code for 1.9.19alphas

Dan Shearer dshearer at spri.levels.unisa.edu.au
Fri Apr 17 12:18:38 GMT 1998


> > tables with sed and m4...
> 
> > BRAIN FAULT!
> >   Religious discussion detected!
> >   Religious discussion detected!
> >   Abort, clear short-term memory and reboot!
> 
> the ever-naive luke tempting fate, here... what's m4?

m4 is a macro language often used for generating sendmail.cf files and
that sort of thing, autoconf too. See 
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/m4-1.4.tar.gz and also 
http://www.kudonet.com/~rkowen/howto/webpaging/m4.html. Its meant for 
mangling config files mostly I think, Even m4 experts seem to use perl 
for other tasks even though m4 could do the job. But I'm no m4 expert :-)

Dan


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