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tmacro - general text-oriented macro processor
tmacro
Tmacro
(for Text MACRO)
is capable of parameterized text substitutions. Its input is taken from either
stdin or file (no wildcards allowed), and its output is sent to
stdout. A log file can be assigned (see the full TMACRO document).
In the simplest case, a macro processor
offers nothing more than the substitute or alter command found in every
interactive text editor. Unlike a text editor, the input and output files
of a macro processor
are rarely the same; the input file is employed to produce an output file
which is then available for some other purpose. In effect, it can be used
as a type of higher-level programming language.
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/usr/local/plot79/tmacrodir/*
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the files used to make tmacro
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/usr/local/plot79/tmacro
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executable file
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/usr/local/plot79/define
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various environment definitions, an appropriate subset of which should be
placed in the user's .cshrc or .profile file
document (1L), drawit(1L), grapht(1L), graph3t(1L), lptops(1L), pfort(1L),
piechtt(1L), plot79-intro(1L), plot79(1L), pluto(1L), pretty(1L), rdinfo(1L),
sf3(1L), slides(1L), tekalw(1L), tkvecs(1L), world(1L)
TMACRO. A General Text Macro Processor. Nelson H. F. Beebe. 1984.
Tmacro was inspired by the MACRO program of Kernighan and Plauger and the
RATMAC program of Munn and Stewart.
Nelson H. F. Beebe, Ph.D.
Center for Scientific Computing
South Physics Building
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tel: (801) 581-5254
(Manual page by R. P. C. Rodgers, Computer Applications in Laboratory
Medicine Project, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143).