On 05/23/2018 12:39 PM, Mike Markowski wrote:

I contacted Mel and hope to hear back.  …
…  Someone else might have already been in touch,  …

I emailed Mel directly and expressed interest in the following books:

 · The M4 Marco Processor
 · SED - A Non-Interactive Text Editor
 · Awk - A pattern Scanning and Processing Language
 · Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
 · RATFOR - A Preprocessor for a Rational Fortran

Here's my comment as to why I'm interested in the aforementioned titles.

I am interested in the following items if they are unclaimed.  I used sed and awk on a daily basis.  I also have what some would consider an unhealthy interest in M4.  I've written things in M4 that some might say become their own markup language for config files.  Which is reminiscent of what I think YACC is supposed to be, hence my interest in that Technical Memorandum, to learn more.  RATFOR, likewise.

The only title that I'd *really* /like/ to get my hands on is "The M4 Macro Processor".  (See aforementioned unhealthy interest in M4.)

I'm quite happy to share with the community.  I just want to save the materials from the bin if nobody else claims them.

Note:  I've not heard anything back from Mel yet.



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