Re: flex or lex gammar for HP/PCL and/or other Printer control languages

fp@fpx.de (Frank Pilhofer)
24 Jan 2002 13:56:09 -0500

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From: fp@fpx.de (Frank Pilhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Jan 2002 13:56:09 -0500
Organization: T-Online
References: 02-01-088
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 24 Jan 2002 13:56:09 EST

Ken Davis <davisken@mediaone.net> wrote:
>
> I'm hunting down a "pre-built" grammar for PCL and / or other printer
> control languages.


  Once upon a time, I've written a tool that translates Kyocera Prescribe
into Postscript. It uses (f)lex and bison/yacc. See


  http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/p2p.html


> [Unless you want to parse the optional embedded pen plotter language,
> the syntax of PCL is awfully simple, with the interesting part being
> the semantics. You hardly need yacc. -John]


  Right; same with Prescribe.


Frank
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