From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 18:48:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19739 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19707 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA22824; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:46:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma022822; Fri Nov 29 18:46:10 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA10231; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:44:54 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199611300244.SAA10231@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc question In-Reply-To: from Bob Bishop at "Nov 28, 96 09:57:45 am" To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:44:54 -0800 (PST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, stesin@gu.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > IMHO, the original papers are still the best general texts on lex and yacc; > they can be found in the 4.4-Lite distribution under /usr/share/doc/psd. I find flex.info and bison.info to be very helpful. Even the man page for flex is sufficiently complete to get you going. FYI, flex is a superior replacement for lex, while bison is a superior replacement for yacc (IMCO :-). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com