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1.1     ! root        1: August 28, 1977
        !             2: 
        !             3: This directory contains source for a version of yacc needed by the Pascal
        !             4: parser.  The differences between this yacc and a stadard version 6 yacc
        !             5: are indicated in a comment in y1.c.
        !             6: 
        !             7: Note that the standard yacc parser will not work on the tables produced
        !             8: by "eyacc" and also that these changes are really useful only with
        !             9: a fairly large set of error recovery routines which are part of both
        !            10: "pi" and "pxp".  The routines are language independent, but the method
        !            11: will only work on languages which have some redundancy in them... it is
        !            12: probably ill suited for C, but would work fine in ALGOL-60, ALGOL-W,
        !            13: EUCLID, LIS, SP/K, PL/1, ALPHARD, CLU, ...
        !            14: 
        !            15: Sun Apr  8 21:43:08 PST 1979
        !            16: 
        !            17: A paper describing the method used by eyacc will appear in August in the
        !            18: SIGPLAN Boulder conference.
        !            19: 
        !            20: Mon May 5, 1980
        !            21: 
        !            22: The eyacc in this directory has been modified to work for
        !            23: version 7.  This involved syntax fixes and changing the I/O calls
        !            24: to standard version 7 calls.
        !            25: 

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