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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com
Subject: Re: What is gm4 and where can I get it?
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R >  >            The GNU m4 shouldn't be hard to find.  archie will
> >  >            point you at any number of archive sites.
> > 
> > For instance, ftp.cdrom.com has it in /pub/gnu.  ;^)  Best server for
> > just about everything these days.
> > 
>
>         Super; thanks for the tip.  Finally there is a machine
>         where we can do one-stop shopping!

Umm, why not the FreeBSD packages mechanism?

bash$ pkg_info m4-1.4.tgz
Information for m4-1.4.tgz:

Comment:
This is Gnu's m4 Vers. 1.4

Description:
GNU `m4'
********

   GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional UNIX macro
processor.  It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some
extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to
[ rest deleted ]

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org