| This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator. |
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| flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize |
| lexical patterns in text. |
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| More information about flex as well as the latest official release of |
| flex can be found at: |
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| http://flex.sourceforge.net/ |
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| Bug reports should be submitted using the SourceForge Bug Tracker |
| facilities which can be found from flex's SourceForge project page at: |
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| http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex |
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| There are several mailing lists available as well: |
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| flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net - where posts will be made |
| announcing new releases of flex. |
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| flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can post questions about |
| using flex |
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| flex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can discuss development of |
| flex itself |
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| Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of |
| BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
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| This file is part of flex. |
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| This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by |
| Vern Paxson. |
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| The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant |
| to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States |
| Department of Energy and the University of California. |
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| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
| modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions |
| are met: |
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| 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright |
| notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. |
| 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright |
| notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the |
| documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. |
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| Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors |
| may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software |
| without specific prior written permission. |
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| THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
| IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
| WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR |
| PURPOSE. |
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| The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest: |
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| README - This file. |
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| NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes. |
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| INSTALL - basic installation information. |
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| ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex. |
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| COPYING - flex's copyright and license. |
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| doc/ - user documentation. |
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| examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a |
| few other things. See the file examples/README for more details. |
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| TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc. |
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| tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details. |
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| po/ - internationalization support files. |