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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:23:43 -0400
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From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: flex vs. lex
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At 09:51 PM 4/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to take an old program that depends on lex quirkiness
>(such as rewriting input() ) and make it work with flex?  Any pointers?  I've
>been searching for an hour now and havent found a thing :(
>
>-Crh
>
>       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu
>
>                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
>

Get a copy of lex from gatekeeper? That'd be my idea because it won't put
GNU copylefts on all your stuff. Sometimes it's not worth upgrading a file
incrementally. I know of no lex2flex reengineering tools.

-John

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