Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:41:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: FLEX docs....
To: pfulmek AT pop DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>>>>Is there anybody out there who can point me to a ps or ascii txt copy of
>>>>flexdoc.1, or better still can someone mail me a copy.
>
>Some time ago I managed to extract the TeXinfo-file FLEX.TEXI from the
>FLEX-sources.
>This file is the source of the FLEX.1 info-file, and it claims to be
>sort of derived from FLEXDOC.1:

flex.1 is an (unformatted) manpage, not an info file; AFAIK there is no 
automatic way to go from either to the other.

>If you have TeX on your machine you can produce the printed manual
>from this file (and the TeXinfo.tex macros, of course, approx. 120kB).

texinfo.tex, actually, although it doesn't really make a difference
under DOS's case-insensitive FS.

>I'm not able to convert TeX to Postscript, right now, but there are
>people who can.

Easy enough; just run DVIPS on the DVI produced by TeX.

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