XBR1YD3E%DDATHD21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (09/08/89)
ast@cs.vu.nl wrotes: >I saw your patches after I reposted M4. Actually, I had already made >them and got a binary, only it did nothing. I find that sort of thing >quite frustrating. Has anybody succeeded in making it behave properly? >What's the secret? I tried 'm4 test.m4' (or was it 'm4 <test.m4' ?) and it worked. test.m4 calls the other *.m4 files contained in the package. Don't ask me why this works, I don't have any documentation about m4 and I never used it before. I compiled it with and without separate I/D-space. Both worked, but the separate I/D-version seemed to be slower (????). I did the patches, because the 'mgr' window-package needs m4 on some places. By the way, does anybody know about a port of the nroff-formatter to minix, or a public-domain source of it, so I can port it on my own ? I want to convert the mgr-docs to a printable form, but I have now access to a operating-system with nroff. (My only Unix is MINIX!). Martin Zaun, TH-Darmstadt , W.Germany