Changeset bdc08c1 for appendixa/flex-desc.xml

Timestamp:

02/06/2002 11:15:46 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Mark Hymers <markh@…>

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Message:

[Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• appendixa/flex-desc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

appendixa/flex-desc.xml

@@ -1 @@
-<sect2>
-<title>Contents</title>
+<sect2><title>Contents of flex-&flex-contversion;</title>
 
-<para>The Flex package contains the flex program</para>
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>flex, flex++ (link to flex) and lex</para></sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
+
+<sect4><title>flex</title>
+<para>flex is a tool for generating programs which recognize 
+patterns in text.  Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. 
+A user sets up rules 
+what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those
+patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to sets up 
+rules for what to look for than to write the actual program that finds 
+the text.</para></sect4>
+
+<sect4><title>flex++</title>
+<para>flex++ invokes a version of flex which is used exclusively for 
+C++ scanners.</para></sect4>
+
+<sect4><title>lex</title>
+<para>We create a yacc script which calls flex using the -l option.
+This is for compatibility purposes for programs which use lex instead
+of flex.</para></sect4>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
+<para>libfl.a</para></sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
+
+<sect4><title>libfl</title>
+<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+
+</sect3>
 
 </sect2>
 
-<sect2><title>Description</title>
-
-<para>Flex is a tool for generating programs which recognize patterns in text. 
-Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. A user sets up rules 
-what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those
-patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to sets up 
-rules for what to look for than to write the actual program that finds 
-the text.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-