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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: public domain lex
Message-ID: <2677dbc5.6086@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 18:47:33 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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>>I know from reading this news group that there exists a public
>>domain yacc program (byacc), but does anyone know of a public
>>domain lex program?
>
>GNU flex from prep.ai.mit.edu (cd pub/gnu). Of course
>if you've got a PC forget it.
>Also get GNU bison as the best PD yacc around, version 1.10
>has just been released (June 7th).

I just finished a compiler course in which I used flex and bison
very successfully on a PC under MS-DOS.  Is anyone running either of
these under PC Minix?  I suspect that even if they compile and run,
the memory available would be quite limiting.

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