To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:45:13 -0700 From: "Brian Ronk" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: Scripting language X-Sender-Ip: 209.143.15.223 Organization: MailCity (http://www.mailcity.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I like that idea better. I didn't realize how broad of a question it really was... I was looking for Bison and Flex at the DJGPP homepage, but couldnt' find them. I am assuming that they are under the downloadable files. Thanks again. Brian Ronk -- >:-) YOU KNOW, this is a VERY broad question. this list isn't here to do >your work for you. it appears, from your questions, that you have very >little idea how scripting even works. the first thing you need to do is >read about that. decide how the language is setup (does it have variables, >functions? is it juts a list of commands? what ends a command?) > >do a good search on the internet about scripting and HOW-TO's. there are >hundreds of ways to implement scripting, and it all depends upon the >environment you're implementing it in. how does the scripting engine get >input? how does it get output? > >there are a variety of ways to store the commands as well: an array, a set >of case statements that sort on a hash-key of the input command, a >hash-table... > >download Flex and Bison from the djgpp site. they are built for making >compilers and scripting engines. read their documentation thoroughly, and >that will give you a much, much better idea what it is you want to do. > > -={C}=- > > Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com