Re: flex and EBCDIC

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From: Vern Paxson
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 17:29

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In article <92220.144059KQS@psuvm.psu.edu> KQS@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Quentin Sullivan) writes:
> I'm trying to compile flex on a VM/CMS machine (which is EBCDIC... yuk!).
> ...
> Does anyone have any good ideas on how to generate a scan.c which will
> read EBCDIC?  I'd rather not go through it by hand and translate the
> appropriate parts to EBCDIC ...

An EBCDIC port was been done a couple of years ago by Jim Boyer.  You can
reach him at boyer@dhiavm.bitnet (you might also try ied@psuvm.psu.edu).
At the time he indicated he'd be happy to field related questions.  His
basic approach was to modify the parser to translate ASCII to EBCDIC; he
then built a bootstrap version of scan.c on an ASCII machine and moved it
over to the EBCDIC machine.

		Vern

	Vern Paxson				vern@ee.lbl.gov
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