Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!minster!john
From: john@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Yacc for Minix (again)
Message-ID: <637950680.761@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 90 16:31:20 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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Please would some kind Minix (PC?) user who has a
working copy of David Clunie's yacc please post the
sources to the net? (presumably having received David's
permission first).

I've tried porting both GNU yacc (bison) and Berkeley
yacc (byacc) to my IBM-PC/XT (now, ST and 386 users, don't
smirk :-) ) but, of course, they won't translate anything
other than the most simple Yacc grammars, even compiled
separate I+D. Berkeley yacc seems particularly heap-space
hungry. The `DECUS' yacc and its derivatives posted to
this newsgroup are apparently modified versions of a
pirate copy of the original AT&T yacc, and so should not
be used or supported by Minix owners.

The archived sources of Clunie-yacc I retrieved from the
archive server at Imperial College, London, seem to require
some work doing to them before they will run under Minix.
Since I imagine many Minix PC users would like a small
(even slow) yacc, someone who has already done the work
and who is willing to post it would surely be much
appreciated. A full source posting is required for those
who don't have Mr. Clunie's original.

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John A. Murdie			+44 904 432752
Dept. of Comp. Sci.		ukc!minster!john
University of York
England