Converted m4, bison, less, groff, textutils, sed, flex, binutils, fileutils, shellutils, gettext and net-tools to new layout.
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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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<para><command>m4</command> copies the given files
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while expanding the macros that they contain. These macros are either built-in
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or user-defined and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro
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expansion, m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running Unix
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commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways,
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recursion, and so on. The m4 program can be used either as a front-end to a
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compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.</para>
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</sect2>
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