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- This is a pre-release of a bunch of berkelix regex(3)/ed(1)
- compatible regular-expression routines.
-
- These routines are completely public domain. You can do whatever
- you like with them, and hopefully you are professional enough not
- to strip out the authorship information, acknowledgements and
- references.
-
- The reason for this being a *pre-release* is that I received a lot
- of useful suggestions about packaging, about additional routines etc.
- from a few people. I do not have too much time to do those changes
- right now, so I am putting this package out for those who needed
- it yesterday. Next release will include other routines, and better
- packaging.
-
- These routines are *not* tested under SysV, but they are tested
- under PRO/Venix (2.0) and BSD 4.2.
-
- Those uEmacs V30 hackers should take notice of this package,
- as well as those who would love to replace the "restricted" regex
- routines in Jove. [Since parts of these routines are based on Conroy's
- original work, it would be only fitting to put these into uEmacs.]
-
- In general, these routines run just as fast, or faster than regex library
- routines under BSD 4.2. In some cases, they are slightly slower. I did not
- try too hard to optimize the re_exec routine.
-
- Coding style is a la K&R, with lotsa short identifiers. I like it
- that way. All flames should be fed to yetti!dragon.
-
- Acknowledgements: Henry Spencer, Hugh Redelmeier and Drew Sullivan made
- a lot of important suggestions, some of which will be
- incorporated into the next version.
-
-
- Package:
- ----------------------------------------------------
- README.txt this file.
-
- regex.3 comprehensive man page
- regex.c goodies
-
- re_fail.c sample failure routine
-
- grep.c a tiny grep for timing tests
-
- makefile guess.
- ----------------------------------------------------
-
- enjoy.. oz [...!utzoo!yetti!oz]
- [oz@yusol.BITNET || oz@yuyetti.BITNET]
-
- Dept. of Computer Science
- York University
-