Bug in lex?

[Eric S. Raymond]

In <1989Sep17.180836.2765 at esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> John R. Levine wrote:
> In the Sys V3.2 manual on lex, they no longer document start states.
> I guess they couldn't make them work either.

There's a lot else wrong with that manual, including the claim that lex
terminates on an input function return of EOF when it actually requires a 0.

I have made higher-ups at AT&T aware that the manual is bogus, and been
promised that the Lesk paper and a lot of the other technical docs that had
fallen by the wayside will be restored to the documentation set.
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