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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Distributability Question (output of Lex and Yacc)
Keywords: Lex *AND* Yacc
Message-ID: <4579@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Nov 89 11:44:58 GMT
References: <5647@umd5.umd.edu> <1702@bruce.OZ> <5656@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <5656@umd5.umd.edu> cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain) writes:
>>From article <5647@umd5.umd.edu>, by cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain):
>--> MINIX lacks **both** Lex and Yacc.
I believe there was something called Flex floating around, but it may be
too large for 64K + 64K.  I don't know.

I have a PD yacc source here (not the notorious DECUS one) that I haven't
looked at.  The source file is 195K bytes.  If anybody wants to study it
and port it to MINIX, let me know.

Andy Tanenbaum