© P.D. Terry, Rhodes University, 1996
NEW (16 January 2000) A Postscript™ version of this text is now available for download.
NEW (17 January 2000) A PDF version of this text is now also available for download.
This site provides an on-line edition of the text and other material from my book "Compilers and Compiler Generators - an introduction with C++", published in 1997 by International Thomson Computer Press. The original edition is now out of print, and the copyright has reverted to me.
This site will be developed over the next few months to include extra material, to add hyperlinks, and to improve the layout still further. The home page for this site, with details of how to download up-to-date compressed versions of the text and its supporting software and courseware can be found at http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/.
The text of the book is Copyright © PD Terry. Although you are free to make use of the material for study and academic purposes, please do not redistribute it without my knowledge or permission.
Comments, suggestions and questions to Pat Terry.
There are two editions of the text, as it makes use of mathematical symbols and Greek letters that are not part of the standard ASCII character sets. If your browser can support it, use the symbol font edition. Your browser will already be set up to support the symbol font if the next line displays the Greek alphabet:
abgdezhqiklmnxoprstufcyw
My system, when running Win95, supports this font this with Internet Explorer® and with Netscape Navigator®. When running Linux, my system supported the font with Netscape after I added the line
Netscape*documentFonts.charset*adobe-fontspecific: iso-8859-1
to the .Xdefaults file.
If you cannot get your browser to render this font, you should use the GIF Font edition of the text. Check on the possibilities by following the links below.
| symbols.htm | Symbols font for special characters |
| symgifs.htm | GIF images for special characters |
There are two editions of the text. Follow the appropriate link below to reach the contents pages for the edition that suits you:
| conts.htm | Symbol Font Edition |
| contg.htm | GIF Font Edition |
The Wintel versions of these files have been compressed with the 32-bit version of Info-ZIP's compression utility. Info-ZIP's software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be obtained as source code or executables from various anonymous-ftp sites, including ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/.
| sversion.zip | Symbol Font edition (only) |
| gversion.zip | GIF Font edition (only) |
| combined.zip | Both editions |
Versions compressed with tar and gzip suitable for directly installing on Unix© servers can be found in the files
| sversion.tgz | Symbol Font edition (only) |
| gversion.tgz | GIF Font edition (only) |
| combined.tgz | Both editions |
After downloading the appropriate file, unpack it to a suitable directory and point your browser at the index.html or index.htm file in the usual way. The files are held in a flat structure; some of the files in the restricted editions are common to both editions. All files are named so as to conform to the old MSDOS 8+3 convention, but use lower-case letters; however, two copies of the index page (index.html and index.htm) are supplied. You may have to configure your server software to be able to render file names with a .htm extension correctly.
After downloading this file, unpack it and then copy the required files directly to a printer with no intermediate filtering. For example, issue the DOS command
COPY /B BIBLIO.PCL PRN
and you should get the bibliography section - about 4 pages. That forms a useful check that the system is compatible. If, after that, you wish to print a copy of a particular chapter, the entire set of files can be obtained by anonymous ftp from http://scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/longpcl.zip (about 750K)
Some people who have tried this complain that the pages are too long. If when you copy BIBLIO.PCL to your printer you get the (obvious) situation that the pages seem too long, make sure you have set the printer for A4 paper. If the results are still unsatisfactory, the file http://scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/shortpcl.zip contains the text set for slightly shorter page length on A4 paper. At present (12 November 1999) the index for this version is out of kilter with the page numbers.
The text of the book is also available for download as a compressed set of files in Postscript™ format, which will allow you to view the text with Ghostscript/Ghostview or print it on a suitable printer. This version also boasts a better set of diagrams. The compressed file is about 1.2MB, but expands to require 18MB of storage.
| pversion.tgz | Version compressed with tar and gzip |
| pversion.zip | Version compressed with Info-ZIP utility |
The text of the book is also available for download as a compressed set of files in PDF format, which will allow you to view and/or print the text with Adobe Acrobat or Ghostview. This version was constructed from the Postscript version using the ps2pdf utility packaged as part of Ghostscript. The compressed file is about 1.2MB, but expands to require 8MB of storage.
| pdfvers.tgz | Version compressed with tar and gzip |
| pdfvers.zip | Version compressed with Info-ZIP utility |
The latest versions of the software sources for the book are available for anonymous FTP using the links shown below. These files are currently supplied as self-extracting MS-DOS executables. These were created with the freely available program LHA.EXE, and incorporate corrections that have emerged since the book was published. They may also be decompressed using LHA on other systems.
cocorc.exe 71 Kb Minimal Coco/R for C (Updated November 1999) cocorm.exe 76 Kb Minimal Coco/R for Modula-2 (Updated November 1999) cocorp.exe 65 Kb Minimal Coco/R for Pascal (Updated November 1999) common.exe 93 Kb Files common to all languages (Updated November 1999) csources.exe 350 Kb C++ specific sources (Updated November 1999) msources.exe 345 Kb Modula-2 specific sources (Updated November 1999) psources.exe 312 Kb Pascal specific sources (Updated November 1999) fileio.exe 153 Kb Modula-2 FileIO module (Updated November 1999) lha213.exe 43 Kb LHArc decompressor readme.1st 11 Kb Installation and setup instructions
Details of how to install the software can be found in Appendix A.