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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: flex vs. lex
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970422012343.007a5100@pop.pitt.edu> from John Duncan at "Apr 22, 97 01:23:43 am"
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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.

I'd also be interested have an at&t close lex in my toolbox so I tried:

ftp gatekeeper.dec.com

quote site index lex

just gives me FreeBSD citations :-)

> 
> -John
> 
> If you ever see an ambulance with sirens blaring and
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> 

--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de