On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Pat Lashley wrote:
> No, I'd expect the backslash at the end of the line to cause the line
> concatenation at the time when the macro is defined.
Yes, that is what happens.
> What I need is a way to expand the macro to multiple lines.
There is no way to do that. A macro reference replaces a part of a line.
It cannot turn one line into more than one line. Sorry, but that's the
way the macros are implemented.
> I know I can do it by having the macro expand to a .include statement;
> but I was hoping to avoid multuplying the number of included files.
What you could do, at the cost of some complication whenever you update
the configuration, is to use a Perl script (or whatever) to pre-process
a "source" configuration into the running configuration. Heck! That is
beginning to sound like what happened to Another MTA... and I thought I
could keep it all so simple...
Philip
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