1This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator. 2 3flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize 4lexical patterns in text. 5 6More information about flex as well as the latest official release of 7flex can be found at: 8 9http://flex.sourceforge.net/ 10 11Bug reports should be submitted using the SourceForge Bug Tracker 12facilities which can be found from flex's SourceForge project page at: 13 14http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex 15 16There are several mailing lists available as well: 17 18flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net - where posts will be made 19announcing new releases of flex. 20 21flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can post questions about 22using flex 23 24flex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can discuss development of 25flex itself 26 27Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of 28BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL). 29 30This file is part of flex. 31 32This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 33Vern Paxson. 34 35The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant 36to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States 37Department of Energy and the University of California. 38 39Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 40modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 41are met: 42 431. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 44 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 452. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 46 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 47 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 48 49Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 50may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 51without specific prior written permission. 52 53THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR 54IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED 55WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 56PURPOSE. 57 58The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest: 59 60README - This file. 61 62NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes. 63 64INSTALL - basic installation information. 65 66ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex. 67 68COPYING - flex's copyright and license. 69 70doc/ - user documentation. 71 72examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a 73few other things. See the file examples/README for more details. 74 75TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc. 76 77tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details. 78 79po/ - internationalization support files. 80