Message-Id: <200002231814.NAA11884@delorie.com>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:50:12 -0500
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Bison 1.28 ported to DJGPP
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

The DJGPP port of Bison 1.28 is available from SimTel mirrors.

Binaries and Info documentation:
    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsn128b.zip

Source code:
    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsn128s.zip

Documentation in HTML, DVI, and PS formats:
    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsn128d.zip


Please read the file 'readme.dos' included in the binary and source 
archives for installation instructions.

What is Bison? To paraphrase from the Introduction in the Bison manual:
Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar 
description into a C program that parses that grammar.  It can be used to 
develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple 
desk calculators to complex programming languages.

Changes from the previous port (Bison 1.25):

* When in a LFN environment, 'bison -y' will now 
output 'y.tab.c' and 'y.tab.h'. 'y_tab.c' and 
'y_tab.h' are still output when not in an LFN 
environment or when 'LFN=N'.

* Compiled with gcc 2.95.2 and linked with the 
DJGPP 2.03 library.

Happy downloading,
Mark