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From: jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY
Summary: MKS is a re-write of YACC
Message-ID: <346@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 22:21:02 GMT
References: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> <135@dcs.UUCP> <235@pigs.UUCP> <4765@killer.UUCP> <4775@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA
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   Since the MKS people may not be reading this group, i wanted to respond
to the question "is MKS YACC a port of AT&T YACC".  To the best of my know-
ledge it is NOT.  They are using newer algorithms, and, they support LR(2)
to some degree.

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