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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: ANSI C and the C Pre-Processor
Message-ID: <387@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 13:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 13:41:56 1984
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> Article <>
> From: mwm@ea.UUCP

> /***** ea:net.lang.c / utzoo!henry /  4:20 am  Sep 25, 1984 */
> As for what should be done to bring back the lost functionality...  the
> ANSI C folks have basically said "if you want a general-purpose macro
> processor, use m4".  The programs that this "change" will break are
> broken already, and should be fixed to do it right.
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
> /* ---------- */
> 
> Great. Another tool that's nearly vital for writing C, but not available
> on most (all) non-Unix systems. Anybody got pointers to a public domain
> m4?
> 
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