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<sect2><title>Contents of m4-&m4-contversion;</title>
<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>m4</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
<sect4><title>m4</title>
<para>M4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output expanding macros as it
goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take any number
of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion m4 has built-in functions
for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic,
manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc. M4 can be used either
as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor in its own
right.</para></sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>