Re: Cisco IOS command language

fvm@tasking.nl (Frank van Maarseveen)
18 May 2001 23:48:05 -0400

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From: fvm@tasking.nl (Frank van Maarseveen)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 May 2001 23:48:05 -0400
Organization: TASKING, Inc.
References: 01-05-026 01-05-036
Keywords: syntax
Posted-Date: 18 May 2001 23:48:05 EDT

Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> wrote:
>
> The Zebra routing software is very similar to Cisco's IOS. I don't
> know how whether or not it's done with Lex and YACC or if it's done
> some other way. www.zebra.org


It's hardcoded and rather ugly for anyone familiar with
parser generators. But it has command name/argument completion
at every level and that's hard to do in a traditional approach.


--
Frank

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