Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!hc!beta!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Teaching Assembler on VAX (BSD 4.3) Message-ID: <7620@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 09:16:15 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.7620 Posted: Mon Jun 1 09:16:15 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 00:53:41 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 21 From: Doug Gwyn Date: 20 May 87 19:34:41 GMT Please don't use /lib/cpp except as part of /bin/cc. It is not intended for use as a general macro processor and may indeed go away some day. Like much of `unix' in System V, dump, tar, nroff, ... Oh yes, tar is still there, altho deprecated, and you *can* get nroff, if you want to spend more money... If you need a macro processor on UNIX, use m4. I was going to ask if anyone *really* used m4 for anything besides sendmail config files, but I should have known: TPC actually *does* use m4 rather than cpp on its assembler files. (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688