ML1(1) Contributed Software Manual ML1(1)NAMEml1 — ML/I macro processor
SYNOPSISml1 [-v] [-w workspace] [-o outputfile] [-o outputfile] [-o outputfile]
[-o outputfile] [-l listingfile] [-d debuggingfile] [file] [file]
[file] [file] [file]
DESCRIPTIONml1 is a general purpose macro processor which allows its users to aug‐
ment any existing programming language by adding new statements (or other
syntactic forms) of their own choosing and in their own notation. These
new features must be expandable in terms of the existing language.
ml1 is also useful for systematic editing, i.e. the replacement of one
string, possibly involving parameters, by another string throughout a
program or any other piece of text.
This manual page merely summarises the ml1 command line options; consult
the full ML/I documentation for anything else.
The options are as follows:
-v
-V Print the version number of this implementation of ml1.
-w n
-W n Set the amount of workspace available to ml1 to n words (the
default is 5000 words).
-l file
-L file
Nominate file as the listing file. The default is that no listing
is produced. The name - is taken to mean the standard output.
-d file
-D file
Nominate file as the debugging file. By default, this is the
standard error stream (usually the user's terminal). The name -
is taken to mean the standard output.
-o file
-O file
Nominate file as an output file. Up to four output files may be
specified; each must be preceded by the -o flag. If no output
files are specified, the standard output is used. An output file
named - is also taken to be the standard output.
All other arguments to ml1 are taken to be the names of input files;
there may be no more than five of these. If no input file is specified,
the standard input is used. The name - is also taken to mean the stan‐
dard input.
DIAGNOSTICS
The ml1 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
R.D. Eager, An ML/I tutorial, 2004.
R.D. Eager and P.J. Brown, A simple introductory guide to ML/I, Fourth
Edition, 2004.
R.D. Eager and P.J. Brown, ML/I User's Manual, Sixth Edition, 2004.
R.D. Eager, ML/I User's Manual, Appendix Y - Implementation on IBM PC
under FreeBSD, 2004.
All of the above documents are available from the ML/I web site,
⟨http://www.ml1.org.uk⟩.
AUTHORS
Bob Eager ⟨rde@ml1.org.uk⟩.
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