SUMMARY: m4 broken

From: Matthias Reichling <rzuw007_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:48:27 +0200 (MET DST)

Original question:

> From the sendmail documentation:
>
> > DEC's m4 on Digital UNIX 4.x is broken (3.x is fine).
>
> This statement seems valid even for Digital UNIX V4.0E - is there
> any patch available ? When will it be fixed ?


I received some answers (and also the ExploreZip Trojan Horse Program :-) )
which all recommended to use GNU m4.

This is of course a solution, but I thought that 3 years after the first
implementation of Digital UNIX 4.x somebody at DEC (and now Compaq) should
have corrected m4 ...

Is the problem even known to Compaq ??



Best regards,

Matthias Reichling
Computing Center
Univ. of Wuerzburg
reichling_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
Received on Tue Jun 15 1999 - 06:50:43 NZST

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