F FLEX, UTILITIES, GNU "fast" (or "flexible") lexical analyzer generator  1 aug-1995 Sheldon Bishov, bishov@star.enet.dec.com   ; The source for files was Free Software Foundation, ftp from  anonymous@prep.ai.mit.edu   6 To build and install see the various *readme*.* files.  B 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):  A     flex.doc    -- documentation, the "man page" describing flex;   B     flex.skl    -- a text file containing flex's default skeleton;G                    with this version of flex, it is for reference only; C                    flex.exe does not need to know where to find it.    C     flexlexer.h -- header file used for C++ class-based lexers; not 5                         needed for ordinary C lexers.   C The command procedure, build-flex.com, is provided to make building C executables easier.  This file refers to flexlib.olb in the default > directory; edit it to make changes if the .olb file is located
 elsewhere.  B Sample source files are counter.flex, a simple line and character F counter, and scanner.flex, a simple token scanner. Both were extracted from flex.doc.  G The required executables and .obj files are in the [.VAX] and [.ALPHA]  H subdirectories.  They were built on OpenVMS v6.1 (VAX) and v6.2 (Alpha).  , The following changes were made in the code:  L build-flex.com: new procedure to make easier building executable using flex.  / descrip.mms: add /standard=vaxc for decc builds 