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From: lth@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Lars Thomas Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc for PC's?
Summary: CUG moved and YACC was pirated...
Keywords: LEX YACC CUG
Message-ID: <3679@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 89 07:46:38 GMT
References: <111700023@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <389@pte.UUCP>
Reply-To: lth@drizzle.UUCP (Lars Thomas Hansen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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In article <389@pte.UUCP> kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young) writes:
>In article <111700023@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jkj90357@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Can someone point me to public domain or shareware versions of Lex and 
>>Yacc available for the PC?...
>
>The C USER'S GROUP (CUG) has several versions of LEX & YACC.  They charge
>$8.00 per disk.  Check out CUG entries: CUG172 and CUG175.  You can sub-
>[...] Thier address is:
>	C USER'S GROUP
>	PO Box 97
>	McPherson, KS  67460
>	(316)-241-1065

CUG has moved; they now reside in Lawrence, Kansas (no, I don't have the
*real* address handy...) The phone # has changed as well; if you dial
the old one, however, they might still transfer you to the new one  --  
at least they did that for me, but that was a month ago.

More to the point is that the CUG volume for YACC was removed from the library
when it was discovered that it contained pirated code. I can't remember
reading about it being replaced yet; the idea was to distribute a PC port
of the Free Software Foundation's "BISON" parser generator when available.

Less to the point  --  I heartily endorse the C User's Group and their
magazine, the C User's Journal, for you C programmers out there in PC or
UNIX land  --  they have some truly enlightening articles on a lot of
topics of interest and relevance.


Hi ho.
--lars