From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject:	Re: What is flex?
Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:29:35 +0200
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Bill_HellGateS wrote:
> 
> What is flex and where can I get it?(I mean which zip file)
> Thanks!
It's a Fast LEXical scanner. It allows you together with
bison to write parsers based on LR grammars. flex is the
part that cuts the input into tokens, i.e. it recognizes
keywords, numbers and such. 
It is in
SIMTELMIRROR/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/flx254[bds].zip

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Ciao
Tom

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