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A container for GNU M4 macro processor experiments

Usage:

Start by building the container

$ podman build -t m4container -f container.src

Then run it, as needed

$ sh startcontainer.sh

the examples directory contains a couple of m4 examples

The examples and annotations are retrieved from a couple of articles that were published in Linux Magazine in 2005.

More m4 notes can be found here

The reasonining of the limitations mentioned in examples/diverting.md are better explained here

M4 as it was defined by K&R can been inspected in docs/m4.pdf