bug in man page of lex(1)

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From: David Lai
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 01:04

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The lex(1) man page says:

	...yyless(p) ... p should be between yytext and yytext+yyleng

however the lex users manual says:

	yyless(n), n=number of chars to retain in yytext

The bahaviour of lex is that of the latter.  So change the lex(1)
man page to show that the argument to yyless() is a number, not a
pointer.

(Error appears in Sun (bsd) manuals, and HPUX (SysV) manuals).
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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: bug in man page of lex(1)
Keywords: yyless
Message-ID: <1953@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 01:04:03 GMT
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, Quebec
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