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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:31:26 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Cc:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: flex vs. lex 
Message-ID:  <9704232231.AA00939@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:59:41 PDT." <Pine.SV4.3.95.970422115413.29070B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> 

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> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Charles Henrich 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 :(
> 
> 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?)

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

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
The Feynman problem solving Algorithm
        1) Write down the problem
        2) Think real hard
        3) Write down the answer
                Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times







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