DBK@aberystwyth.ac.uk (01/13/90)
Are there any program parsers (PD or commercial) [ as in YACC for UNIX boxes] suitable for use with IBM-PCs (80386) running Fortran? Replies most welcome!! Many thanks, Douglas Kell.
JRAMON@emduam51.bitnet (01/14/90)
Try downloading LEX. It is a tool much similar to YACC available in
UNIX also. You can get it from SIMTEL-20 archives through TRICKLE. It is on
<MSDOS.C>LEX.ARC
It comes with a manual, executables and several examples. To download it, just
send a message by FTP or a e_mail containing simply the line
/PDGET <MSDOS.C>LEX.ARC
to TRICKLE@TREARN (BITNET)
You can get further help on how to access the P.D. files on SIMTEL20
archives by sending to the same address a message containing
/HELP
Hope this helps.
For the rest of the people, my apologies for sending this to the net,
but I have some problems sending to the U. K.
J. R. Valverde
Dpt. of Biochemistry
School of Medicine
Univ. Autonoma, Madrid. SPAINmark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) (02/09/90)
In article <9001131522.AA23880@net.bio.net> DBK@aberystwyth.ac.uk (Douglas Kell) writes: > Are there any program parsers (PD or commercial) [ as in YACC for > UNIX boxes] suitable for use with IBM-PCs (80386) running Fortran? Before answering DBK's question, I feel obliged to correct a followup that was posted. In article <9001151324.AA24670@net.bio.net> JRAMON@emduam51.bitnet (J. R. Valverde) writes: > Try downloading LEX. It is a tool much similar to YACC available in > UNIX also. You can get it from SIMTEL-20 archives through TRICKLE. [ ... ] The two are "similar" only in the sense that they are two different tools which are often (though not always) used together. Lex is used to produce lexical analyzers. Yacc is used to produce parsers. Yacc parsers require a lexical analyzer, but there's no requirement that lex be used to create it. More important, lex knows nothing about context-free grammars, and therefore is incapable of doing the things that yacc does. The two perform very different functions. Please don't confuse the two. Now, back to DBK's original question. First, I don't understand the reference you made to Fortran. Are you looking for a yacc-like tool plus a grammar for Fortran (i.e. you want to use the pseudo-yacc to create a Fortran compiler), or are you looking for a yacc-like tool that generates Fortran code, in the same way that UNIX yacc generates C code? (Frankly, I *shudder* at the thought of a parser generator that spews out a parser written in Fortran!) Or is the reference to Fortran irrelevant? In any case, there is a very good yacc for MS-DOS, produced by the following company: Mortice Kern Systems 35 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 Canada Telephone: 519 884 2251 FAX: 519 884 8861 UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!inquiry They have lots of other wonderful software for MS-DOS as well, providing much of the functionality of UNIX (well, as much as humanly possible) on top of that awful, brain-damaged Microsoft operating system. PS: No, I'm not a paid shill, and have no affiliation with them, other than as a (very) satisfied customer. Mark Bartelt INTERNET: mark@sickkids.toronto.edu Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto mark@sickkids.utoronto.ca 416/598-6442 UUCP: {utzoo,decvax}!sickkids!mark