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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: YACC and LEX for Macs
Message-ID: <201@harald.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 18:24:36 GMT
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earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON) writes:

eh>Flex uses a hard-coded '\n' in numerous places to denote newline, and
eh>'\n' is equal to 10 in most non-weird C implementations.  To make Flex
eh>work with Macintosh 'TEXT' files, either filter the input and output so
eh>that Flex sees an end of line as a '\n', or change Flex to use '\r'
eh>instead of '\n' everywhere. 

Shouldn't '\n' be 'whatever-this-system-uses-to-seperate-textlines'?

Just curious...
Jan B. Andersen <jba@dat.ruc.dk>             ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")