%%name: GNU m4

%%short-description: Macro processor.
 
%%full-description: An implementation of the traditional UNIX macro
processor in that it copies its input to the output,
expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either built-in or
user-defined and can take any number of arguments. M4 also has
built-in functions for including named files, running UNIX commands,
doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, and
recursions. It can also be used as either a front-end to a compiler or
as a macro processor in its own right. It is often used to generate
web-authoring as it can give a consistent look to pages.

%%category: development, web-authoring

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Rene Seindal  <seindal@webadm.kb.dk>

%%interface: Interactive, command line

%%updated: 08 Mar 2000

%%keywords: Macros, HTML, UNIX

%%programs: 

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/gnu/

%%support:

%%doc: English end user on-line reference manual available at http://www.seindal.dk/rene/gnu/man/m4_toc.html

%%developers: Rene Seindal <seindal@webadm.kb.dk>

%%contributors: 

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%%source: ftp://ftp.seindal.dk/gnu

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%%version: 1.4 released Oct 1994; 1.4o beta 04 Jan 2000

%%announce-list: m4-annouce@sendal.dk

%%announce-news: gnu.announce

%%help-list: 

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%%dev-list: m4-forum@seindal.dk

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%%bug-list: bug-m4@gnu.org










 





