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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Can anyone point me to source for a lex that works on
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Arnold Robbins <arnold@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