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Arnold Robbins

13 Aug 2018 13 Aug '18

7:06 p.m.

Hi. Can anyone point me to source for Unix lex that can be compiled and works on Linux? I've tried in the past to make V7 lex work and failed. Thanks, Arnold

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ron＠ronnatalie.com

13 Aug 13 Aug

7:57 p.m.

New subject: Can anyone point me to source for a lex that works on Linux?

Does it have to be UNIX lex or will the GNU Flex work for you (that's what most of the LINUX stuff uses)? -----Original Message----- From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org> On Behalf Of Arnold Robbins Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 3:07 PM To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org Subject: [TUHS] Can anyone point me to source for a lex that works on Linux? Hi. Can anyone point me to source for Unix lex that can be compiled and works on Linux? I've tried in the past to make V7 lex work and failed. Thanks, Arnold

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arnold＠skeeve.com

14 Aug 14 Aug

7:41 a.m.

I am looking specifically for Unix lex; I have some old code that assumes some knowlede of lex internals. I will try the Heirloom Toolchest version that was mentioned in another message. Thanks to you and everyone who replied, Arnold <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:

Does it have to be UNIX lex or will the GNU Flex work for you (that's what most of the LINUX stuff uses)? -----Original Message----- From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org> On Behalf Of Arnold Robbins Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 3:07 PM To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org Subject: [TUHS] Can anyone point me to source for a lex that works on Linux? Hi. Can anyone point me to source for Unix lex that can be compiled and works on Linux? I've tried in the past to make V7 lex work and failed. Thanks, Arnold

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Cág

7:16 p.m.

Ron wrote:

Does it have to be UNIX lex or will the GNU Flex work for you (that's what most of the LINUX stuff uses)?

Actually flex is not a GNU project, and is in fact based on the old Berkeley implementation, so it's kinda Unix-y. -- caóc

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Dave Horsfall

11:20 p.m.

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Cág wrote:

Actually flex is not a GNU project, and is in fact based on the old Berkeley implementation, so it's kinda Unix-y.

And if Flex was indeed a Gnu project, then surely it would've been called Glex? :-) -- Dave

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Scot Jenkins

13 Aug 13 Aug

9:03 p.m.

Arnold Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:

Can anyone point me to source for Unix lex that can be compiled and works on Linux? I've tried in the past to make V7 lex work and failed.

Heirloom development tools includes lex: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/devtools.html I had it working on an older version of Slackware (12.x?) years ago. It should still build on current Linux systems. You need to build/install heirloom-sh first, then use it when building heirloom-devtools. scot

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