Re: POSIX-isms

[Akim Demaille]

 > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 address@hidden wrote:
 >> Apparently Windows 2000 now has some kind of fork(), and cygwin has a
 >> working version.

 > In don't quite see how that helps somebody using, say MSVC on Windows 9x,
 > or any compiler on MS-DOS.  Like I said, the core issue is the assumption
 > of a POSIX compatible platform in general, not Windows in particular.

I might be completely out of context, but IST have understood that
Flex now uses a scheme comparable to Bison wrt M4.  Then maybe there
is some code and knowledge that could be shared.

Provided the license is OK.