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Copyright (C) 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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Introduction and preliminaries

This first chapter explains what is GNU m4, where m4 comes from, how to read and use this documentation, how to call the m4 program and how to report bugs about it. It concludes by giving tips for reading the remainder of the manual.

The following chapters then detail all the features of the m4 language.


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