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From: tpj AT sn2 DOT ee DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk (TPJ Mc Guigan)
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Subject: Re: "info" file for flex?
Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:10:31 GMT
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In article <DnwIv1 DOT DCy AT natlab DOT research DOT philips DOT com>, 
kunst AT natlab DOT research DOT philips DOT com says...
>
>In article <030596203528Rnf0 DOT 79b6 AT magnorth DOT nildram DOT co DOT uk> 
sysop AT magnorth DOT nildram DOT co DOT uk (Simon Chapman) writes:
>>
>> I'm currently learning to use Bison and Flex. Whilst the doc for Bison 
>> is great, there does not seem to be any formatted doc for Flex. All I 
have
>> is what looks like "nroff" or "troff" input, which is difficult to read 
>> without the right software. I'm using Flex 2.4.7.
>>

I'm sure that the TeX code for Flex is in the source code zip. From this
you can use makeinfo to generate an ASCII file. Even better, if you have MS 
Word6 or similar I will send you my A5 version of the manual as a uuencode

Mail me at tpj AT sn2 DOT ee DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk


>
>You could also try one of the following books:
>
>  "Lex & Yacc, 2nd Edition", Mason, Brown
>  O'Reilly, 1992, ISBN 1.56592-000.7
>
>  "The Unix Programming Environment", Pike & Kernighan
>
>An example lex & yacc program, 'hoc' (from the above book), which
>implements a (programmable) calculator, can be obtained from:
>
>  http://plan9.att.com/netlib/att/cs/home/hoc.bundle.Z
>
This is an excellent recommendation - the book is below £20 and all the
source code can be ftp'd.

Good luck...

TPJ McGuigan.