Luck++;
=> If you post a followup, PLEASE don't email a copy to me. I read news
often enough that replying to things twice is annoying. But thanks.
> I've been using m4 for years, sometimes directly. I've always wondered
> how it got its name, but have never been able to find an answer. Anyone?
I don't know the answer either, but I can tell you that its
predecessor, which appeared in the second through sixth editions
of Unix, was called m6.
eric