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.SH CAVEATS
Only very simple macro expansions work in inline calls at the moment. This can
be fixed by the author tokenizing the line properly, which he'll do Real Soon
-Now (TM). Specifically, neither quote delimiters nor macro parameters work.
-The latter is because of a nasty corner-case in m4 where parameter expansions
-$1, $2, $*, etc are expanded
-.B even within quotes,
-one of m4's darkest corners. The workaround is to do as much logic as you can
-in a block, defining your result as a single simple macros, and then expanding
-that inline.
+Now (TM). Specifically, quote delimiters do not work.
.SH SEE ALSO
bp(1df), xargs(1)
.SH AUTHOR