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+This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.
+
+flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize
+lexical patterns in text.
+
+The flex codebase is kept in [git on github.](https://github.com/westes/flex)
+
+Use github's [issues](https://github.com/westes/flex/issues) and [pull request](https://github.com/westes/flex) features to file bugs and submit patches.
+
+There are several mailing lists available as well:
+
+flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net - where posts will be made
+announcing new releases of flex.
+
+flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can post questions about
+using flex
+
+flex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can discuss development of
+flex itself
+
+Find information on subscribing to the mailing lists at:
+
+http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=97492
+
+The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest:
+
+README - This file.
+NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.
+INSTALL - basic installation information.
+ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.
+COPYING - flex's copyright and license.
+doc/ - user documentation.
+examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a
+	few other things. See the file examples/README for more details.
+tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details.
+po/ - internationalization support files.
+
+You need the following tools to build flex from the maintainer's
+repository:
+
+compiler suite - flex is built with gcc
+bash, or a good Bourne-style shell
+m4 - m4 -p needs to work; GNU m4 and a few others are suitable
+GNU bison;  to generate parse.c from parse.y
+autoconf; for handling the build system
+automake; for Makefile generation
+gettext; for i18n support
+help2man; to generate the flex man page
+tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution
+GNU texinfo; to build and test the flex manual. Note that if you want
+to build the dvi/ps/pdf versions of the documentation you will need
+texi2dvi and related programs, along with a sufficiently powerful
+implementation of \TeX to process them. See your operating system
+documentation for how to achieve this. The printable versions of the
+manual are not built unless specifically requested, but the targets
+are included by automake.
+GNU indent; for indenting the flex source the way we want it done
+
+In cases where the versions of the above tools matter, the file
+configure.ac will specify the minimum required versions.
+
+Once you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes
+simple. To prepare the flex tree for building, run the script:
+
+$ ./autogen.sh
+
+in the top level of the flex source tree.
+This script calls the various tools needed to get flex ready for the
+GNU-style configure script to be able to work.
+
+From this point on, building flex follows the usual configure, make,
+make install routine.
+
+This file is part of flex.
+
+This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+Vern Paxson.
+
+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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+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+are met:
+
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+
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+
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