Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 17:05:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bob Bruce <bbruce AT MINET DOT gov DOT MB DOT CA>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Help! Can't figure out documentation on BISON and FLEX

I am running PCs connected to a Local Area Vax Cluster. We are trying to
migrate off of the VAXen and were looking for a utility to replace the VMS
Command Language Utility. The LEX and YACC software looks like a good 
candidate for this and I found the freeware versions of them, FLEX & BISON,
at csusm.edu  in their DOSWARE directories. 

Unfortunately the manual for flex, flexdoc.1 is written in a text formatting
language that I have never seen before (perhaps a UNIX utility - I don't know
any UNIX) and the BISON document, bison.tex can't be processed with our 
TEX on the VAX since there is a lot of C code (which looks like TEX 
commands), the input file at the beginning of the document is missing.

Could someone out there help me out? Is it possible to process the FLEX 
manual into a document either on our VAX or using some program on the PC?
Is there an initialization file for TEX that we could input that would get
it to process the BISON manual into a document on our VAX?

Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer.

                                   Bob Bruce
                                   Manitoba Land Information Centre
                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba