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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
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Subject: Looking for Unix lex for modern systems
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 20:17:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Can anyone point me at a version of Unix lex that will run on Linux?

Thanks,

Arnold
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com
[I wouldn't hold my breath.  Perhaps someone has a retrocomputing
Vax or PDP-11 that can run an antique lex and then you can use the
output.  Or maybe it might be easier to dig into the ugly lex
application and figure out what it's doing to the insides of
the old lex scanner. -John]