Re: AW: Old flex desperately needed (or Ebcdic port)

[W. L. Estes]

> thank you very much for your prompt reply!  Alas, being no RCS expert I
> played around with the Emacs frontend a bit -- to no avail.  So I went to
> see our MKS and CVS expert, who didn't figure it out either.  Worse, he said
> that it couldn't possibly work, because RCS doesn't have information on
> release versions.
> 
> So my question is: how do I get at flex 2.3.6 and newer versions?  They are
> in there, scattered over various individual versions of different files.  I
> guess I need a list like flex 2.3.6 = (scan.c 1.22; parse.y 2.78 ...)  Or
> how does this work?

Try the following:

1: determine the date of the flex 2.3.6 release.

2: copy the rcs files into a module in a cvs repository.

3: do a "cvs export" command using the date determined in step #1.

That's probably as close as you're going to get.

--Will