MINIPROC, UTILITIES, General-Purpose Text Preprocessor Miniproc is a small general purpose text preprocessor. Miniproc is intended to be a portable, and much simpler, alternative to perl and M4. Miniproc is written in ANSI C. Some possible applications are: 1. Preprocessor for languages which do not have their own standard preprocessor (ie, Fortran.) For use in preparing a single standard presource which is processed through miniproc to result in platform specific final source file(s). 2. Make-like utility for batches of HTML files. Example, you have many documents which all include a standard disclaimer on the bottom. Change the disclaimer, and run a miniproc script to update the final HTML files. Or it could be run periodically in a batch queue to update dates within documents. 3. Mailing lists. That is, whenever you need to generate many similar files which are all variants on a single template. Copyright 1997,1998, 1999 by David Mathog and California Instititute of Technology. This software may be used freely, but may not be redistributed. Distributions may be obtained from: http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/www/miniproc.html You may modify this sofware for your own use, but you may not incorporate any part of the original code into any other piece of software which will then be distributed (whether free or commercial) unless prior written consent is obtained. For more information, or to report bugs, contact: mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu The current version is 3.04.