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- From: pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo)
- Subject: Re: Working lex for v4.0?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.112611.8205@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Organization: IIT--Institute of Increasing Tuition.
- References: <1992Dec20.120530.16635@iitmax.iit.edu> <9212243066@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 11:26:11 GMT
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- In article <9212243066@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser) writes:
- >Pred, I tried your code. Indeed flex produced >1 megabyte before a stopped
- >it. It must have the double-per-cent-sign at the end of the spec (%%) or
- >flex will copy infinitely what ever is actually there ( end of file ). I
- >think this is a flex bug. At any rate, if you install the "%%", it will
- >flex up ok.
-
- Um . . . how did you know that would fix it?
-
- Anyway, a kind netter sent me the latest COHERENT version and it works fine.
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- [. . . code deleted . . .]
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- >I think this is probably what you are trying to achieve. BTW, very
- >interesting code. Looks useful for parsing ftpmail commands and other
- >network stuff.
-
- Yes, that's exactly it. And your first guess at its purpose was correct:
- it's an ftpmail-commands parser. I'm working on a public version since
- DEC refuses to release its sources.
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- Respectfully,
-
- Pred Bundalo
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