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This is flex.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from flex.texi.
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Programming
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START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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* flex: (flex). Fast lexical analyzer generator (lex replacement).
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The flex manual is placed under the same licensing conditions as the
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rest of flex:
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Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 The
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Flex Project.
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Copyright (C) 1990, 1997 The Regents of the University of California.
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All rights reserved.
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This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by Vern
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Paxson.
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The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant to
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contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States Department of
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Energy and the University of California.
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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