[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] GNU Bison and Flex was: Re: GNU diff for MSD

allanb@us.cc.umich.edu (Allan M. Bjorklund) (07/24/90)

In article <1238400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> hhp00389@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Give this man a cigar!
>Please do post all the GNU utilities you mention.

Steve Tinney here at U of M has ported the latest version Bison and Flex
to MSDos.  They are available for anonymous FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu
in the directory msdos/util/programming

I don't know if they'll get posted, but we are working on getting a
mailserver set up.

-- Allan


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NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) (07/29/90)

Has anybody else had any luck obtaining FLEX and BISON via FTP from terminator?
I have tried twice to obtain FLEX and have had no luck.  I used binary format
when I FTP'ed the files but I cannot get pkzip to digest them.  When I run
pkzip on the FLEX.ZIP file pkzip simply hangs indefinitely, no error message
just a machine hang which responds to CTL-ALT-DEL.

I would appreciate comments from anyone who has had success obtaining FLEX
from terminator.  This is the first case I have had where an FTP'ed file
would not decode.  Perhaps the terminator people could verify the integrity
of the zip file and report back to the net.  Thanks for any responses that
may be forthcoming.

                     As always,
                     Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                     Roger Maris Cancer Center Computing Facility

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klf1305@che_sun1.tamu.edu (Kelly L. Fergason) (07/30/90)

In article <4409NU013809@NDSUVM1> NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) writes:
>Has anybody else had any luck obtaining FLEX and BISON via FTP from terminator?
>I have tried twice to obtain FLEX and have had no luck.  I used binary format
>when I FTP'ed the files but I cannot get pkzip to digest them.  When I run
>pkzip on the FLEX.ZIP file pkzip simply hangs indefinitely, no error message
>just a machine hang which responds to CTL-ALT-DEL.
>

	I got them both last week.  No problems with either.

	Kelly Fergason

NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) (07/31/90)

8ISCLAIMER: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article.

I have successfully retrieved FLEX and BISON from terminator.  The problem
was in the transfer from the IBM mainframe down to our UNIX(c) network.
To save time I uuencoded the zip file and just mailed it to myself.
Unfortunately the ugly EBCDIC to ASCII conversion problem seemed to have
bitten me.  I used kermit to transmit the zip files and all went well.
I would like to thank everyone who took a few minutes to reply or to
check the masters on terminator.

                             As always,
                             Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                             Roger Maris Cancer Center Computing Facility

                             UUCP: uunet!plains!wind!greg
                             INTERNET: greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu
                             Phone: 701-234-2833

`The truest mark of a man's wisdom is his ability to listen to other
 men expound their wisdom.'