FLEX, TOOLS, GNU "fast" (or "flexible") lexical analyzer generator aug-1995 Sheldon Bishov, bishov@star.enet.dec.com The source for files was Free Software Foundation, ftp from anonymous@prep.ai.mit.edu To build and install see the various *readme*.* files. Provided outside of the zip file are executabls, reference files, a build procedure, and sample flex source code. Reference files are the following (extracted from readme.vms): flex.doc -- documentation, the "man page" describing flex; flex.skl -- a text file containing flex's default skeleton; with this version of flex, it is for reference only; flex.exe does not need to know where to find it. flexlexer.h -- header file used for C++ class-based lexers; not needed for ordinary C lexers. The command procedure, build-flex.com, is provided to make building executables easier. This file refers to flexlib.olb in the default directory; edit it to make changes if the .olb file is located elsewhere. Sample source files are counter.flex, a simple line and character counter, and scanner.flex, a simple token scanner. Both were extracted from flex.doc. The required executables and .obj files are in the [.VAX] and [.ALPHA] subdirectories. They were built on OpenVMS v6.1 (VAX) and v6.2 (Alpha). The following changes were made in the code: build-flex.com: new procedure to make easier building executable using flex. descrip.mms: add /standard=vaxc for decc builds