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diff --git a/doc/examples/WWW/m4lib/whatis.m4 b/doc/examples/WWW/m4lib/whatis.m4 deleted file mode 100644 index 2fa1c426..00000000 --- a/doc/examples/WWW/m4lib/whatis.m4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -include(`setup.m4') - -\set_author([René Seindal]) -\set_title([What is GNU m4]) - -\divert(1) - -\p([GNU \tt(m4) is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro -processor. GNU m4 is mostly compatible with the System V, Release 3 -version, and SVR4, although it has some extensions (for example, -handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU \tt(m4) -also has built-in functions for including files, running shell -commands, doing arithmetic, etc.]) - -\p([GNU \tt(m4) is a macro processor, in the sense that it copies its -input to the output, expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either -builtin or user-defined, and can take any number of arguments. Besides -just doing macro expansion, m4 has builtin functions for including named -files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating -text in various ways, recursion, etc... m4 can be used either as a -front-end to a compiler, or as a macro processor in its own right.]) - -\p([The m4 macro processor is widely available on all UNIXes. Usually, -only a small percentage of users are aware of its existence. However, -those who do often become commited users. The growing popularity of GNU -Autoconf, which prerequires GNU m4 for generating the `configure' -scripts, is an incentive for many to install it, while these people will -not themselves program in m4.]) - -\p([Some people found m4 to be fairly addictive. They first use m4 for -simple problems, then take bigger and bigger challenges, learning how to -write complex m4 sets of macros along the way. Once really addicted, -users pursue writing of sophisticated m4 applications even to solve -simple problems, devoting more time debugging their m4 scripts than -doing real work. Beware that m4 may be dangerous for the health of -compulsive programmers.]) - -\p([Autoconf needs GNU m4 for generating `configure' scripts, but not for -running them.]) - -\p([GNU m4 is a Unix program. It is designed to work in a Unix-like -environment. GNU m4 1.4 has, however, been ported to DJGPP, the GNU C -compiler for DOS/Windows. These files are present in the -\link(download.htm, download area).]) - -\divert(0)\dnl -\DO_LAYOUT([\undivert(1)]) -\divert(-1) |