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+This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.
+
+flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize
+lexical patterns in text.
+
+More information about flex as well as the latest official release of
+flex can be found at:
+
+http://flex.sourceforge.net/
+
+Bug reports should be submitted using the SourceForge Bug Tracker
+facilities which can be found from flex's SourceForge project page at:
+
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex
+
+There are several mailing lists available as well:
+
+flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net - where posts will be made
+announcing new releases of flex.
+
+flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can post questions about
+using flex
+
+flex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can discuss development of
+flex itself
+
+Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
+BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+
+This file is part of flex.
+
+This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+Vern Paxson.
+
+The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
+to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
+Department of Energy and the University of California.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+without specific prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+PURPOSE.
+
+The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest:
+
+README - This file.
+
+NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.
+
+INSTALL - basic installation information.
+
+ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.
+
+COPYING - flex's copyright and license.
+
+doc/ - user documentation.
+
+examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a
+few other things. See the file examples/README for more details.
+
+TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc.
+
+tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details.
+
+po/ - internationalization support files.