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@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ -This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer. +This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator. -Read the file "INSTALL" for general installation directives. Peek near -the beginning of the file "Makefile.in" for special DEFS values. On most -systems, you can just run the "configure" script and type "make" to build -flex; then "make check" to test whether it built correctly; and if it did, -then "make install" to install it. - -If you're feeling adventurous, you can also issue "make bigcheck" (be -prepared to wait a while). You can run the regression tests if you change to -the TESTS/ directory and issue "make" followed by "make check". +flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize +lexical patterns in text. Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL). 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. + Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: @@ -40,10 +40,12 @@ The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest: README - This file. -NEWS - user visible changes between the various releases. +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. flex.1, flex.texi - user documentation. @@ -56,3 +58,5 @@ few other things. See the file examples/README for more details. TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc. tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details. + +po/ - internationalization support files. |