Re: Old flex desperately needed (or Ebcdic port)

Hi,


Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@esperanto.org> wrote:
: In the flex distribution there's a port to MVS consisting of
: modifications concerning file names and short symbol names which are
: not important on our mainframe (Fujitsu Siemens BS2000). Then a few
: minor code fixes where some Asciites thought that everything from A -
: Z isupper(). And most importantly there is an Ebcdic output of
: scan.l, which alas is totally useless since it corresponds to a
: seemingly 10 year old version 2.3.6.


Hmmm, reminds me of my first Unix machine - a Sun 3/60 workstation.
Well, there's an old Exabyte backup tape in a corner somewhere...


: It is totally useless, because it doesn't come near to working with
: the current version. And no version before 2.4.2 is to be found on
: the internet! And even then there are two missing diffs on the GNU
: mirrors before 2.5.1 so the older diffs cannot even be applied.
: PLEASE send me pointers (URL, CVS, mail me the sources...) to this old
: version 2.3.6, and all versions since, so I can incrementally work up
: to the current version.


I was able to find some interesting things:
- a flex version 2.3 from
    ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/unix/4.3bsd-reno/usr.bin/lex/
    (Yes, this seems to be a 4.3BSD-Reno source tree...)
- some ancient flex version 2.1 from 1989(!) which was posted to
    comp.sources.unix
- flex 2.3.7, which is part of Minix-2.0.0 (in cmd.tar.Z)
    ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
    ftp://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/minix.2.0/2.0.0/src/
- and another flex 2.3 posted to comp.souces.unix at
    http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume23/flex2.3/


Not exactly 2.3.6 but close. I wasn't able to find diffs to more
recent versions...


Hope this helps,
regards,
Michael
--
Michael Engel (engel@informatik.uni-siegen.de)

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