Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:48:38 +0930 (ACST) From: Dan Shearer <dshearer@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: code for 1.9.19alphas In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980417120221.14153H-100000@regent.push.net>
> > tables with sed and m4...
>
> > BRAIN FAULT!
> > Religious discussion detected!
> > Religious discussion detected!
> > Abort, clear short-term memory and reboot!
>
> the ever-naive luke tempting fate, here... what's m4?
m4 is a macro language often used for generating sendmail.cf files and
that sort of thing, autoconf too. See
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/m4-1.4.tar.gz and also
http://www.kudonet.com/~rkowen/howto/webpaging/m4.html. Its meant for
mangling config files mostly I think, Even m4 experts seem to use perl
for other tasks even though m4 could do the job. But I'm no m4 expert :-)
Dan