ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (04/06/90)
In article <6236@star.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > > There was a PD Yacc posted to comp.sources.unix yesterday > for interested parties. Whether it will run on MINIX, I don't know. > > Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) I'll check it out, probably this weekend. It compiled and worked fine on my Ultrix box. gcc produced a VAX executable of size 64512 bytes, so it might just fit into 64K i&d on PC-MINIX. -- Guy Helmer ...!cs.texas.edu!bigtex!uudell!loft386!dsuvax!ghelmer DSU Computing Services ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp, helmer@sdnet.bitnet "... the quickest way to kill any business is to let the government take it over." - Alan Abelson
bammi@curie.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) (04/07/90)
In article <1136@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes: > In article <6236@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > > > >There was a PD Yacc posted to comp.sources.unix yesterday > >for interested parties. Whether it will run on MINIX, I don't know. > Don't even bother to try, at least for Intel Family Minix. All tables > are in memory. I have it working fine under MSDOS, but I used large > model. > > If you're using Atari Minix, go for it. Byacc is, in my opinion, a > vaste improvement over bison, and is unencumbered by copyleft. the atari version has been available for over 4 months (since it was first relased for ftp from the author). using minix-gcc to compile it does'nt require even a single character to be changed. its available for FTP from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu in pub/atari/byacc.zoo. -- -- bang: {any internet host}!dsrgsun.CES.CWRU.Edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi