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1 Introduction and preliminaries
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This first chapter explains what GNU ‘m4’ is, where ‘m4’ comes from, how
to read and use this documentation, how to call the ‘m4’ program, and
how to report bugs about it.  It concludes by giving tips for reading
the remainder of the manual.

   The following chapters then detail all the features of the ‘m4’
language.

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* Intro::                       Introduction to ‘m4’
* History::                     Historical references
* Bugs::                        Problems and bugs
* Manual::                      Using this manual