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From: tor AT oslonett DOT no (tor sjowall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Flex 2.4.7
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 21:59:30 GMT
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kjackson AT uofport DOT edu (Kevin) wrote:

>I had a compiler for a language we're developping on a Unix system.  On the
>Unix system, I use Bison and Lex.  DJGPP Bison works fine, and i got Flex to
>work except for one thing: it won't skip comments!  It's built into the grammar
>and it works on Unix.  It's the same file that I'm processing.  Anyone had
>similar problems or have any ideas?

Don't place comments at the start of a line. 
   /* this works! */
/* this fails... */

Tor.