Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1 - thanks

["singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@32sixteen.com>]

Thanks to everyone with their suggestions, but basically changing the
compiler/the environment etc is out of the question, and many other
proposals were just too convoluted or - to be blunt - over the top. I might
not have explicitly said so, but the tone of my original query should have
directed people to minimal impact solutions not over the top engineering
monstrosities.

We have decided to alter our version of the aflex tool to open a file
'standard_error' directed to the VMS stream sys$error during elaboration
instead of to a named log file. This allows us to remove the kludge from the
lex spec, doesn't clutter the directory with log files, achieves what we
were after all along, was easy to test for correctness and didn't involve
megabucks changing tools.

I'm saddened that some engineers went too far looking for complex solutions,
whereas the simple beauty of having the tool sources, plus some code samples
from an Ada software repository (thank you Stuttgart University)allowed us
to use a simple solution.

nick