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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: flex vs. lex
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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.

Maybe you can find someone that has the old and new versions and get some
insight.


Mike