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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:

> > I was interested in getting AT&T's Software ToolChest which has CSCOPE and
> > CSCOPE has the same problems.  The Bell Labs web pages now include BSD/OS
> > support so I think they had to do something similar.
> >
> Well, bsd 4.2 probably had the AT&T lex source, so it works.
> 
> They're BSD/OS probably is meaningless to most bsd users (does bsdi repackage 
> flex?)

Why?  BSD/OS comes with gcc and flex.

> I have a newer version (13.x) then they talked about (12.9).

The version on the CD-ROM is 13.x, they must have forgot to update it. 
The BSD/OS entry on the supported OS's section is new. 

Mike