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Re: prehistory of m4


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: prehistory of m4
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:43:57 -0600
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On 05/29/2012 10:50 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> The series of GPM-like macroprocessors at Bell Labs stretches
> back further in time than is described in the History section
> of the texinfo manual for m4.   Macros were quite a cottage
> industry there.

Thanks for the extra information.  Is this something you would be
interested having in the GNU M4 manual?  If so, would you be able to
help refactor this text into an actual patch to the m4 sources?

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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