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From: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: GNU Bison and Flex was: Re: GNU diff for MSD
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Date: 29 Jul 90 14:24:53 GMT
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Has anybody else had any luck obtaining FLEX and BISON via FTP from terminator?
I have tried twice to obtain FLEX and have had no luck.  I used binary format
when I FTP'ed the files but I cannot get pkzip to digest them.  When I run
pkzip on the FLEX.ZIP file pkzip simply hangs indefinitely, no error message
just a machine hang which responds to CTL-ALT-DEL.

I would appreciate comments from anyone who has had success obtaining FLEX
from terminator.  This is the first case I have had where an FTP'ed file
would not decode.  Perhaps the terminator people could verify the integrity
of the zip file and report back to the net.  Thanks for any responses that
may be forthcoming.

                     As always,
                     Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                     Roger Maris Cancer Center Computing Facility

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