Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Development Environment

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 23:56:21 -0700
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:51:27AM -0400, Schipper, Martijn wrote:
> Why is this scanner.c file part of the distribution anyway?

So that, at least on UNIX, you don't *have* to have Flex installed in
order to build the distributed Ethereal source.  (If you change
"scanner.l", you do, but that's life.)