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From: POSER@su-csli.arpa (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: S and M4
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 03:36:04 EST
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	I just tried to install a new (1984) version of S on an 11/750
running 4.2BSD. The installation procedure aborted when it ran a test to
see if the version of the M4 macro processor was the one it wanted.
The test checks whether M4 understands an argument designator of the
form $*. None of the machines that I have tried around here have an M4
that knows about $*, nor have I found it in any documentation. All of the
manuals say that argument designators are of the form $n, n an integer.
Does anyone know what's going on here and how I might follow SYSGEN's
suggestion that I get a new version of M4?
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