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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-16 19:55:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-16 19:55:00 +0000 |
| commit | b7d9d404530bb763fc76017744709800796af054 (patch) | |
| tree | 31337c4e9208ece3bc6a53b2e613187275d74dc1 /appendixa/m4-shortdesc.xml | |
| parent | b2933b95f79e304436547f8b984e4f586b662c85 (diff) | |
Converted m4, bison, less, groff, textutils, sed, flex, binutils, fileutils, shellutils, gettext and net-tools to new layout.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2353 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/m4-shortdesc.xml b/appendixa/m4-shortdesc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..05958f75f --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/m4-shortdesc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<sect2><title>Contents of M4</title> + +<para>Last checked against version &m4-contversion;.</para> + +<para>M4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output, expanding +macros as it goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined and can +take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion, m4 +has built-in functions for including named files, running Unix +commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, +recursion, etc. The m4 program can be used either as a front-end to a +compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.</para> + +<para>M4 installs the following:</para> + +<sect3><title>Program Files</title> +<para>m4</para></sect3> + +</sect2> |