m4: add an option to specify an output file for stdout

Christopher Faylor cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 17 10:05:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Ralf Hauser wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
>> Ralf Hauser <hauser@acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > Otherwise, if only pipe redirection (">") is possible, the interaction
>> > for example with jakarta "ant" becomes very complicated.
>> > see http://www.seindal.dk/forum/read.php?f=2&i=76&t=76 and
>> > and
>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/ant-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg21085.html 
>> 
>> But what has this got to with Cygwin?
>Cygwin is my provider of m4

And, Cygwin is a project which provides UNIX utilities for Windows.
We're not in the habit of adding new options unless they are absolutely
required for use on Windows.  I don't think this qualifies.

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