Re: [Scribia-dev] Fwd: Flex Preprocessor?...

[lws <lw...@ma...>]

On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 02:15 PM, Lark wrote:

> lws wrote:
>
>>> ...Where do I obtain this? What is it's purpose?
>>>
>>> -Nargoth-
>
>
> As for where, see the README in the docs folder.
>
> As for why, the Scribia scanner is a flex scanner. Flex is an old Unix 
> tool to build scanners for languages. In our case, the DT "language" of 
> CL log files. It translates the flex source (Scribia.l) into a C file, 
> which is then compiled by CW.
>
> Lark

Thanks