flex-old | The old version of the fast lexical analyzer generator. | Mehr ...
flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. This is the old 2.5.4a version, which is no longer being developed. You should normally choose flex, unless you have legacy lexer files that do not work with a modern flex. . This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at http://lex.sourceforge.net/
flex-old-doc | Documentation for an old flex (a fast lexical analyzer generator) | Mehr ...
This package contains the HTML documentation for the old 2.5.4a version of flex, which is no longer being developed upstream. You should normally chose flex-doc, unless you have legacy lexer files that do not work with a modern flex, and need to use the old flex. The upstream source code can be found at the FTP site: http://lex.sourceforge.net/